Tristan Gingold wrote:
On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:59 PM, Michael Snyder wrote:

Jakub Jelinek wrote:
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 01:20:28PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
2011-03-03  Michael Snyder  <msny...@vmware.com>

        * libiberty/cplus-dem.c (ada_demangle): Stop memory leak.
        Also fix a one line indent problem.
No libiberty/ in libiberty/ChangeLog.
@@ -1129,10 +1129,11 @@ ada_demangle (const char *mangled, int o
  unknown:
  len0 = strlen (mangled);
+  xfree (demangled);
  demangled = XNEWVEC (char, len0 + 3);
xfree isn't ever used in libiberty/*, use either free, or
XDELETE/XDELETEVEC.  In fact, it seems to be defined only in gdb,
making cplus-dem.c dependent on gdb is obviously a wrong thing.
Thanks for the review.

How's this?

+  if (demangled != NULL)
+    free (demangled);

No need to check that demangled is not NULL.

Are you sure?  There is a path to "goto unknown" from before the
call to the alloc function.  It might actually be null.  Some
versions of 'free' don't like that.

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