Re: [Vimprobable-users] [PATCH] Possible fix for crash on :echo

[Daniel C. <dan...@gm...>]

Hi!
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 03:59:03PM +0200, Hannes Schüller wrote:
> The reason, and feel free to correct me, was roughly "we cannot be
> bothered to track down all calling instances and free the memory there,
> so let's just do it in this central function". Which lead to all kinds
> of nasty race conditions in several less used functions.
> 
> In your original patch, what I'd suggest to to allocate the memory,
> call the function and then free the memory again afterwards. Nice and
> readable. If we want to be sure, a "safefree" macro as suggested
> certainly will not hurt.

If I understood right, follwing patch should do that. It's a replacement for
previous patch. We need to remove the const Arg from sript function to write
the pointer ti NULL after freeing it.

Daniel