On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 01:52:19AM +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > On 11/09/2019 20:03, Robert Elz wrote: > > Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:02:53 +0000 > > From: "Kamil Rytarowski" <ka...@netbsd.org> > > Message-ID: <20190911170253.d097ff...@cvs.netbsd.org> > > > > | Free it when no longer used, just before the program termination. > > > > Can we please avoid this kind of nonsense. Everything is freed when > > every program exits - doing explicit free() calls makes the program bigger > > and slower for no reason at all. > > > > By all means fix places where memory is truly leaked (whenre more is > > continuously allocated, and simply discarded) but anything that is supposed > > to remain until program exit should simply go away when the exit happens. > > > > If the canitisers cannot be instructed to ignore such things, they are > > much less useful tan they could be. > > Could we add an #ifdef for this? > > #ifdef __SANITISATION > free(foo); > close(bar); > #endif > > return EXIT_SUCCESS;
That's kind of how coverity and valgrind dealt with it. Joerg
