Em Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 03:05:40PM -0500, Nilay Vaish escreveu: > On 13 October 2016 at 05:59, Stephane Eranian <eran...@google.com> wrote: > > +++ b/tools/perf/jvmti/libjvmti.c > > @@ -12,6 +12,17 @@ > > +static void print_error(jvmtiEnv *jvmti, const char *msg, jvmtiError ret) > > +{ > > + char *err_msg = NULL; > > + jvmtiError err; > > + err = (*jvmti)->GetErrorName(jvmti, ret, &err_msg); > > + if (err == JVMTI_ERROR_NONE) { > > + warnx("%s failed with %s", msg, err_msg); > > + (*jvmti)->Deallocate(jvmti, (unsigned char *)err_msg); > > + } > > +} > > Do we not need to release the memory for err_msg if the condition for > the 'if' statement evaluates to false? Is it that we are going to > kill the process, so no need to release the memory?
I guess that print_error() is called only when an error was returned somewhere, that ret parameter, then if there was no error (JVMTI_ERROR_NONE) in translating that numeric code to an string, err_msg, it can then be used with warnx() (the main purpose of print_error()) and then deallocated. For err != JVMTI_ERROR_NONE it silently goes back to the caller that expected it to print something. I.e. probably it should have an else clause, something like: if (err == JVMTI_ERROR_NONE) { warnx("%s failed with %s", msg, err_msg); (*jvmti)->Deallocate(jvmti, (unsigned char *)err_msg); } else { warnx("%s failed with an unknown error %d", msg, (int)ret); } Stephane? - Arnaldo