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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Fix small objcopy memory leak
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 20:48:04 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y1+g3F4fFhkFw1Wc@squeak.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21691094-d184-2eef-8bcc-7eb6d355d7e8@msgid.tls.msk.ru>

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 12:24:21PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 29.10.2022 07:52, Alan Modra via Binutils wrote:
> > 	* objcopy.c (copy_archive): Free l->name.
> > 
> > diff --git a/binutils/objcopy.c b/binutils/objcopy.c
> > index d20aaef9f4f..03350babb69 100644
> > --- a/binutils/objcopy.c
> > +++ b/binutils/objcopy.c
> > @@ -3744,6 +3744,7 @@ copy_archive (bfd *ibfd, bfd *obfd, const char *output_target,
> >   	    bfd_close (l->obfd);
> >   	    unlink (l->name);
> >   	  }
> > +	free ((char *) l->name);
> 
> btw, why you cast it to char* ?

To explicitly remove the const qualifier.  Otherwise we hit a
-Wdiscarded-qualifiers warning when l->name, a const char*, is
implicitly cast to void* by the free() prototype.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

      reply	other threads:[~2022-10-31 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-29  4:52 Alan Modra
2022-10-31  9:24 ` Michael Tokarev
2022-10-31 10:18   ` Alan Modra [this message]

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