code for 1.9.19alphas

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Ooops.  Fingers slipped.

What I meant to say was...

> 
> ok, further comments (this is posted to samba-technical, too).
> 
> instead of a separate free_xxx function, add an extra BOOL parameter to
> make_xxxx.
> 
> if True, malloc.  if False, free.  call other make_xxxx sub-functions with
> the extra BOOL parameter too.

Eeeuuwww.  Yech.  Nasty.

> reason: this will keep mallocs and frees in the same place.  this is
> important so that future development doesn't get out of step (resulting in
> loss of memory stuff).

Mallocs and frees should be in the same file, but as complimentary 
calls.  Okay, this is *principle*, and practice sometimes strays, but 
it's generally a bad idea to overload a single function.  A function 
should perform *a function*.

Chris -)-----

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crh at nts.umn.edu              Networking and Telecommunications Services