Re: [PATCH 1/2] iio: generic_buffer: Cleanup when receiving signals

[Crestez Dan Leonard]

On 05/21/2016 07:28 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 20/05/16 16:55, Peter Meerwald-Stadler wrote:
>>
>>> This also drops all the code freeing string buffers at the end of main.
>>> Memory is freed when the process exits anyway so there's no point in
>>> cluttering the code with all those gotos.
>>
>> well, it helps to see that all memory has been released when looking for 
>> leaks :)
>> e.g. valgrind becomes much less useful when the program exits with tons of 
>> memory still allocated
> Beyond that we are looking at code here that will get cut and paste into other
> peoples applications - they might not pick up that it doesn't clean up properly
> after itself.
> 
> I'd much prefer to keep these explicit frees in place.

I think this would make more sense for a library (like libiio). But
isn't the code in tools/iio merely an a test tool?

I submitted v2 which keeps the frees. It still simplifies them by
relying on stuff like free(NULL) being allowed.

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Regards,
Leonard