Re: [PATCH] maint: fix an inconsequential mem leak in join

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> valgrind was complaining about definite mem leaks in `join`
> so I refactored the offending code a little and removed the
> inconseqential leak (which may mask real leaks in future).
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> Subject: [PATCH] maint: fix an inconsequential mem leak in join
>
> * src/join.c (join): Refactor the code that checks for misorder
> at the tail of the files.  The most significant change here is
> that freeline() is called thus silencing a valgrind warning about
> a definite but inconseqential memory leak.
> (freeline): Make more general by doing nothing when passed NULL,
> and setting freed pointers to NULL.

Thanks.  That had been an annoyance when looking at leak summaries.