This is the mail archive of the fortran@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GNU Fortran project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: possible wasted memory in list_read.c


On Saturday 17 April 2004 23:25, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:48:46AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > Bud, Paul,
> >
> > The following patch removes a possible abuse of memory.
> > It appears the saved_length is doubled, but then the
> > actual allocation of memory is 4 times the amount of the
> > original saved_length.
>
> Forget the patch.  I think I know what is going on, but
> it sure would have been nice to have comment in the code.

Please do submit comment/documentation patches in cases like this. If you 
misunderstood this bit of code there's a good chance someone else could do 
the same. It is important that this sort of apparent wrongness is documented, 
otherwise it tends to get "corrected" :)

Paul


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]