Re: tolua potential memory leak?

[Brian Weed <bw@...>]

Fabian Peña wrote:

> please see this C code
>
>
> const char * getSome()
> {
>
>    return strdup("some string");
> }
>
>
> tolua generated code
>
>
> static int tolua_getSome(lua_State* tolua_S)
> {
>
> // bla bla bla
>      const char* tolua_ret = (const char*)  getSome();
>     tolua_pushstring(tolua_S,(const char*)tolua_ret);
>    return 1;
> }
>
> Tthat it  happens to the memory assigned in strdup?   Memory Leak ?
Aren't you responsible for freeing the string returned by strdup() ?

The following change would avoid the leak:

const char * getSome()
{
   return "some string";
}

But I assume you can't do that for some reason, or you would not be asking.

Brian