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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2008-01-10 11:12:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2008-01-10 11:12:06 +0100 |
| commit | 619c189e199adf139ed298d1852e92987eb6289f (patch) | |
| tree | b54f8cbdecaa3de535f109ce37fd2dcaebab11ca /lib/relocatable.h | |
| parent | 7ba813f0fe78d2c88b6efbf3e82e7a58112b2e1a (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-619c189e199adf139ed298d1852e92987eb6289f.tar.gz | |
Make it possible to avoid all memory leaks when calling relocate().
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/relocatable.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/relocatable.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/relocatable.h b/lib/relocatable.h index 5970be7a27..8f1e2aa1b6 100644 --- a/lib/relocatable.h +++ b/lib/relocatable.h @@ -49,12 +49,15 @@ extern RELOCATABLE_DLL_EXPORTED void const char *curr_prefix); /* Returns the pathname, relocated according to the current installation - directory. */ + directory. + The returned string is either PATHNAME unmodified or a freshly allocated + string that you can free with free() after casting it to 'char *'. */ extern const char * relocate (const char *pathname); /* Memory management: relocate() leaks memory, because it has to construct a fresh pathname. If this is a problem because your program calls - relocate() frequently, think about caching the result. */ + relocate() frequently, think about caching the result. Or free the + return value if it was different from the argument pathname. */ /* Convenience function: Computes the current installation prefix, based on the original |