[PATCH 5/7] xf86ShowOpts.c: Remove bad code from DoShowOptions
Daniel Stone
daniel at fooishbar.org
Tue Nov 1 17:50:44 PDT 2011
Hi,
On 1 November 2011 22:42, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> When we want to print a string, it's okay to just print it.
> We don't need to first allocate a buffer 2 bytes bigger than the
> string, copy the entire string unmodified to the buffer, print the
> buffer, and then leak the buffer (though we AbortDDX 8 lines later,
> and then just in case we survived that, call exit as well, so the
> leak is short lived, just oh so pointless).
>
> Oh, and for good measure, put the "r" in String, no matter how
> much it stings.
Bonus points if you felt like just removing optionTypeToSting, now
that it's unused.
> Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>
Cheers,
Daniel
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