[kaffe] memory leaking

[Greg Wooledge]

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Martin Pohlack (mp26@os.inf.tu-dresden.de) wrote:

> In my recent attempt to build kaffe with the "diet libc" I noticed some=
=20
> #warnings, given by "diet libc":
>=20
> ../kaffevm/.libs/libkaffevm.a(syscalls.o)(.text+0x4e8): In function=20
> `jthreadedGetHostByAddr':
> /home/mp26/erwin/kaffe/kaffe/kaffevm/systems/unix-jthreads/syscalls.c:270=
:=20
> warning: gethostbyaddr() leaks memory.  Use gethostbyaddr_r instead!
> ../kaffevm/.libs/libkaffevm.a(syscalls.o)(.text+0x493): In function=20
> `jthreadedGetHostByName':
> /home/mp26/erwin/kaffe/kaffe/kaffevm/systems/unix-jthreads/syscalls.c:251=
:=20
> warning: gethostbyname() leaks memory.  Use gethostbyname_r instead!

Maybe diet libc's implementation does.  In OpenBSD and most other Unix
systems, gethostbyname() uses a static buffer which is returned (or a
pointer to which is returned) every time.  This means it's not safe to
use in multi-threaded apps.  Kaffe's aware of this, as you can see by
the comments, so they lock the whole thing while it's doing a name
lookup.

OpenBSD doesn't have the *_r versions.

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