Re: deallocation in gnutls_*_deinit?

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 06/30/2010 04:36 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> >   Hi
> >
> > Newbie question here:
> >
> > According to valgrind and the source then for example gnutls_hash_init
> > and gnutls_cipher_init does a gnutls_malloc, but the corresponding
> > _deinit apparently doesn't free it.
> >
> > The documentation doesn't mention anything, and I would thus expect
> > gnutls_hash_deinit&  friends to do the necessary gnutls_free.
> >
> > What have I missed?
> >
> > Should I explicitly call gnutls_free after gnutls_*_deinit?
>
> No you shouldn't. It's a bug. Thank you for reporting it. I corrected it at:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnutls.git;a=commitdiff;h=75ed7cb709d949f012afff73e4728889e0e65681

Thanks.

What do you recommend: Should I implement a workaround for 2.10.0 (and 
how?) or should I require 2.10.1? Is there a planned/estimated data of a 
release?

/Mads