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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:07:07 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/21] perf/core improvements and fixes
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* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> wrote:

> Em Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:47:57PM +0100, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> > * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> wrote:
> > > Em Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:12:29PM +0100, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> > > > Hm, I've unpulled it because 'perf top' crashes on exit, in 
> > > > dso__delete():
> 
> > > 495		if (dso->sname_alloc)
> > > 496			free((char *)dso->short_name)
> 
> > Btw., instead of trusting flags I'd argue that using the pointer as a 
> > flag and clearing the pointer too is a much more robust freeing 
> > pattern in general:
> 
> > 		if (dso->short_name) {
> > 			free(dso->short_name);
> > 			dso->short_name = NULL;
> > 		}
> > 
> > or so ...
> 
> This is not an unusual idiom, if you look at 
> tools/perf/util/ev{list,sel}.c, for instance, you'll see it in many 
> destructors.
> 
> In this case there is a micro optimization where sometimes the 
> shortname is just a pointer to the tail part of the long name, hence 
> the flag.

Sounds fair.

[btw., a tiny nit remains: the cast is probably unnecessary, free() 
will take any pointer.]

Thanks,

	Ingo