Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Memory allocation audit, janitor project, EMEMification of dissectors

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 02:23:38AM -0400, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> Gerald, what about an ethereal-janitor sub project and mailing list?

I don't think a separate ml should be used. ethereal-dev is just fine.

> Anyone want to chip in?  There are still 140 g_malloc()s left in
> epan/dissectors  and if my current experience is worth anything  
> probably half of them will have obvious memleaks (i.e. never g_free())
> and virtually all the others have non-obvious ones (exception raised
> between g_malloc() and g_free() and no CLEANUP_PUSH or simiar kludge)
> 
> 
> raise your hand if you want to help out, its pretty boring work but
> should really be done.

I can start doing that. Maybe you can create a page in wiki and put in a
list of files that you already have looked at just to coordinate things.
Alternatively, that could be managed via a bugzilla entry but I think
that wiki is a much more efficient interface for this.

 ciao
      Joerg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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