[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] flacdec: fix memleaks

[Paul B Mahol]

On 7/29/12, Reimar Doeffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 03:36:28PM +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> On 7/29/12, Reimar Doeffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 02:14:12PM +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> >> Signed-off-by: Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com>
>> >
>> > Thanks, but could you please use goto instead?
>> > This is quite a lot of code duplication, and if someone e.g. adds a
>> > second
>> > buffer that needs to be freed there's a good chance they'll miss to add
>> > it at some places.
>>
>> Use goto only for this specific case or for all cases?
>
> Not sure I understand the question.
> Ideally IMHO all functions that need something freed should have at most
> two return statements: one for the success and one for the failure case.
> goto usually is the most convenient way of achieving that.

I prefer to fix memleak in one patch and do refactoring in another.