[OPEN-ILS-DEV] segfault in JSON object re-use code

Bill Erickson erickson at esilibrary.com
Mon Jul 7 22:23:09 EDT 2008


On Monday 07 July 2008 7:38 Bill Erickson wrote:

> Am I crazy, or should unusedObjUnion actually be implemented as a struct
> and not a union, since it needs to actively maintain pointers to the next
> unusedObjUnion and its jsonObject simultaneously?  I.e. a union can only
> store data for one field at any given time.

After some lively discussion in #openils-evergreen, I have seen the light.  
I'll can now peacefully go back to debugging my own code which is clearly 
doing some improper memory management of its own.

-b

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