[omniORB] Purify claims "freeing mismatch memory" on HPUX 10.20

[Sai-Lai Lo]

>>>>> Zurek, Jan writes:

> We have just build a "purified" version of omniORB 2.6.0 with HP aCC A.01.15
> compiler and encountered a memory problem. There is a "freeing mismatched
> memory" error in the constructor of tcpSocketIncomingRope. This error means
> that memory has been allocated with new[] and freed with delete or vice
> versa.

> The error is located in the nested class hostent_var of class LibcWrapper
> where the member pd_buffer is allocated in the method gethostbyname() with
> the following command:
> 	h.pd_buffer = (char*)(new hostent_data);
> but freed in destructor of LibcWrapper with
> 	delete [] pd_buffer;

> According to statements of the HP-Labs this may result in unspecified
> behaviour. We have changed the allocation to
> 	h.pd_buffer = new char[sizeof(hostent_data)];
> in file libcWrapper.cc, line 124 and everything works fine.

> Does anyone have any comments or rejections on that?
> Can this code be changed in future releases?

Looks correct. It has been checked in.

Sai-Lai


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