C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>
>>> Having trouble typing clearly today, it seems...
>>>
>>> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> This patch fixes a bug where multiple --target switches fail silently
>>>>> for all but the final one. Instead, this patch concatenates all targets
>>>>> specified by multiple --target switches into one array.
>>>>>
>>>>> Coincidentally, this patch also fixes a memory leak, since we were just
>>>>> dropping the previous list of targets when we encountered additional
>>>>> --target switches.
>>>> Eh, we're still leaking memory with this patch because apr_array_append()
>>>> doesn't reuse either of the arrays it's given as input. So it takes array A
>>>> and B and makes a new C (wasting both A and B). If a third --targets comes
>>>> along, it'll waste another pair of arrays. And so on. But we're only
>>>> talking about an amount of memory proportional to the number of times
>>>> --targets shows up as an option, and not alot of memory at that.
>>> To clarify, it only wastes the memory needed for the array structure, not
>>> its elements.
>>
>> Understood. Is this type of waste acceptable, or would the ideal
>> solution be to make sure we clean up after ourselves by using a subpool?
>
> Because of the low cost here, I'd personally just drop a little comment
> saying, "Hey, we're wasting a handful of bytes (the size of an array header)
> here to avoid the overhead and complexity of a subpool."
Okay. Attached is a second version of the patch.
-Hyrum
[[[
Allow the --targets switch to be given multiple times.
* subversion/svn/main.c
(main): Append multiple targets to the same array, instead of
replacing them.
]]]
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Received on Wed May 31 23:51:41 2006