[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Fix several memleaks, mostly related to errors handling.

[Xavier]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 02:00:53PM +0100, Nagy Gabor wrote:
> Good catches!
> 
> > 
> > * in _alpm_sync_prepare, the deps and asked lists were not freed in case
> > of errors (unresolvable conflicts).
> > Besides the code for handling this case was duplicated.
> >
> 
> The good old sync.c: probably you can find more bugs in sync_prepare monster;-)
> I don't want to hurt anyone, but I couldn't find any concept in sync_prepare [as
> I said earlier: that looks a bunch of #FS fixes instead]. The asked list is
> totally needless for example...
> 
> So I suggest again rewriting it from scratch (with or without using my pending
> patches) <- it is easier then review the current code imho.
> 

You're right, trying to fix a little memleak in this messy code doesn't help
much, but it didn't require much efforts either.
I wasn't trying to review this function anyway. I just ran several pactests
with valgrind, and tried to fix all memleaks I could find. One happened to be
in that part.