[PATCH] Make loadparm more common

[David Disseldorp]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 10:18:10 +0200, Michael Adam wrote:

> > > No, I'm not willing to add any more talloc_tos() to this area of the
> > > code.  Almost all the odd unexpected failures caused by this patch set
> > > were due to new talloc_tos() calls, because not all callers had a
> > > talloc_stackframe().    
> 
> Well, those is a bug then, and the developer mode to panic
> in that case was introduced so that we can fix the callers up.
> 
> I think adding talloc_tos() is way better than adding talloc(NULL,...)
> since this way we can at least easily spot the leaks.

I disagree. IMO tallocations on the null context are much more readable
and debugable. For talloc_tos() tallocations one needs to consider
whether a stackframe is around, and when the next garbage collection
could take place.

Cheers, David
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