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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Ada and string literals
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:30:37 -0500
Date: 2013-02-02T09:30:37-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccobg2hjoy.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85d2wj1nut.fsf@stephe-leake.org

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> Setting the argument to null helps avoid dangling pointers.

It does.  But I doubt it helps a lot, because it only detects
the most obvious case, where you free X and then refer to
X.all.  The more subtle bug is when you free X and then refer
to Y.all (or free Y).  Setting X to null is no help there.

- Bob



  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-02 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-30  0:44 Ada and string literals codeallergy
2013-01-30  7:08 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-30 11:50   ` Mart van de Wege
2013-01-30 13:52     ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-30 16:09       ` Adam Beneschan
2013-02-01  0:54       ` Shark8
2013-02-01  9:03         ` Niklas Holsti
2013-02-01 14:58           ` Shark8
2013-01-30 16:52     ` codeallergy
2013-01-30 17:19       ` Adam Beneschan
2013-01-30 20:02       ` Simon Wright
2013-01-30 20:19         ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-30 22:06       ` Robert A Duff
2013-01-30 22:10         ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-31  2:23           ` Robert A Duff
2013-01-31 15:49             ` Adam Beneschan
2013-01-31 22:24               ` Robert A Duff
2013-02-01 21:16       ` gautier_niouzes
2013-02-02  1:55       ` Stephen Leake
2013-02-02 14:30         ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2013-01-31  9:20     ` ake.ragnar.dahlgren
2013-01-30 16:20   ` Robert A Duff
2013-02-01 13:20     ` Stephen Leake
2013-02-01 14:49       ` Robert A Duff
2013-02-01 17:23       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-02-01 20:22         ` Robert A Duff
2013-02-01 22:03           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-30 22:54 ` codeallergy
2013-02-01  0:50 ` Shark8
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