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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Memory leak in getservbyXXX?
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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 06:23:04 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970915001015.2337C-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Sep 15, 97 00:23:09 am
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> I think he meant,
> 
> "wouldn't it be nice if I could do"
> 
> signal_handler () {
> 	...
> 	pcopy = not_static_copy ("string",
> global_buffer_i_happen_to_keep_always_lying_around_especially_\
> for_use_in_my_signal_handlers);
> 	...
> }
> 
> Or maybe he meant,
> 
> "wouldn't it be nice if I could do"
> 
> printf ("%s%s", unstatic ("ab", buf1), unstatic ("bb", buf2));
> 
> Of course, if I happen to pass NULL as the buffer, then it will
> use its own static buffer.

That's a nice compromise, actually.  The only problem is that static
buffers are intrinsically sized.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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