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Subject: Re: [PATCH] setup.exe: removes some memory leaks from fromcwd.cc
From: Robert Collins <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
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Date: 06 Nov 2001 08:56:28 +1100
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On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 03:50, Christopher Faylor wrote:
...
> >I'm really not worried about cleaning up globals at exit - I'm much
more
> >warried about cleaning up globals as we go, or as we change from dialog
> >to dialog. Exit is a trapdoor, so it cannot be a 'problem'.
> 
> Since the memory is going to be freed on exit anyway, I don't see any reason
> to go to great lengths to invent a system for freeing it.
> 
> setup.exe is a short-lived program.  We should be good about freeing up memory
> that we use because that's good programming but I don't think we have to
> invent some kind of garbage collection system to deal with this.

I think we are agreeing again, no?

Rob


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