[flashrom] [PATCH] Fix flashrom memory leaks

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Sat Sep 19 20:45:40 CEST 2009


On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Maciej Pijanka
<maciej.pijanka at gmail.com> wrote:

> if xalloc will be done as macro then its possible to use __LINE__ and
> __FILE__ values to show from where xalloc was called
>
> #declare xalloc(a,b) xalloc(a,b,__FILE__, __LINE__)

that's fine too. The main thing is that when an allocate fails you
want as much information as possible, esp. if you are going to report
a bug :-)

Also, sometimes, seeing that it tried to allocate 981340981732871234
bytes can help :-)

ron




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