Re: [PATCH] some patches to fix compiler warnings

Tim Ruehsen tim.ruehsen@gmx.de writes:

As Simon Josefsson made clear, the main reason are automated tests for memory leaks using valgrind. Something, that a library test suite should not miss.

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But without freeing resources in main(), you now can't easily say, if you have a problem in the library or in the testsuite.

However, as far as I recall, the Nettle library does not contain any calls to malloc or other memory allocating functions. So I don't think there could be any memory leaks from the library?

If it is a huge effort to release memory from the testsuite, it may not be worth it. But if it is a small effort, and it leads to being able to run all the testsuite under valgrind without any warnings, I would support doing it.

/Simon