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On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 16:43 +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
> >
> > So the allocation bypasses _AL_MALLOC so that the allocation is on libc's
> > list of cells, but it is not on my _AL_MALLOC's list of cells. So when you
> > call _AL_FREE, it (_AL_FREE) complains about an invalid block being passed
> > in.
> >
> > There are a few of these small problems throughout the code. Would you be
> > interested in some patches to fix these?
>
> Yes. They are bugs.
>
> > Until now I have hacked the code
> > in src but as I am preparing to submit my port to the Allegro svn I need to
> > fix them properly. I propose a _AL_STRDUP macro that gets defined along
> > with _AL_MALLOC and _AL_FREE. Any comments?
>
> Sounds fine to me.
>
Seems not even our own ustrdup uses _AL_MALLOC - that also needs to be
fixed.
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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>