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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] perf utils: add support for arch standard events
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 01:45:00AM +0800, John Garry wrote:

SNIP

>  static void print_events_table_suffix(FILE *outfp)
>  {
>  	fprintf(outfp, "{\n");
> @@ -407,6 +469,52 @@ static char *real_event(const char *name, char *event)
>  	return event;
>  }
>  
> +static void fixup_field(char *from, char **to)
> +{
> +	*to = malloc(strlen(from));
> +
> +	strcpy(*to, from);
> +}

could you just call '*to = strdup(from)' in here?

jirka