Re: [PATCH 3/3] grep: plug leak of pcre chartables in PCRE2

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jul 27 2019, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote:

> Just as it is done with PCRE1, make sure that the allocated chartables
> get free at cleanup time.
>
> This assumes no global context is used (NULL passed when created the
> tables), but will likely be updated in tandem if that ever changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
> ---
>  grep.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/grep.c b/grep.c
> index d04635fad4..d9768c5f05 100644
> --- a/grep.c
> +++ b/grep.c
> @@ -604,6 +604,7 @@ static void free_pcre2_pattern(struct grep_pat *p)
>  	pcre2_match_data_free(p->pcre2_match_data);
>  	pcre2_jit_stack_free(p->pcre2_jit_stack);
>  	pcre2_match_context_free(p->pcre2_match_context);
> +	free((void *)p->pcre_tables);

Is the cast really needed? I'm rusty on the rules, removing it from the
pcre_free() you might have copied this from produces a warning for me,
but not for free() itself. This is on GCC 8.3.0. How about for you &
what compiler(s)?