[Live-devel] [patch] fix or suppress compiler warnings

Erik Hovland erik at hovland.org
Tue Jul 8 19:20:26 PDT 2008


On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:31:59PM -0700, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> This patch has been checked for
>>  > memory leaks since it almost always heap allocates a duplicate string
>>  > instead of the = "".
>
> I see no reason not to continue to use static string constants. Copying 
> them into heap-allocated memory instead (using "strDup()") is  
> inefficient and pointless.

Understood. I'll submit a new patch that doesn't fix that. When gcc 4.4
and the feature is truly deprecated I can rework it.

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