[Patch] PR 51061

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Paolo Carlini wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> reportedly, the patchlet which plugged the memory leak reported in PR36819 can
> cause problems when heads[QUOTE] or tails[QUOTE]. Thus I'm finishing testing
> the below. Really, if we have reasons to believe that the issue is much more
> complex than this, I guess we can also revert PR36819, -I- itself is
> deprecated, so..

This patch is OK.  There have been various arguments against the -I- 
deprecation (see PR 19541); I haven't really followed them, but my 
impression is that the deprecation has probably proved to be a bad idea in 
practice.

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Joseph S. Myers
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