[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D18459: Fix FILE * leak in Python API

[Zachary Turner via lldb-commits]

zturner added inline comments.

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Comment at: scripts/Python/python-typemaps.swig:532
@@ -531,3 +524,1 @@
-         file.Clear();
-    }
 }
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fjricci wrote:
> The problem is that here, we save the `FILE*` (`$1`) and let the `File` (`file`) go out of scope. So the `File` gets destructed (but it's after calling `file.Clear()`, so the close doesn't happen). But we still hold onto the `FILE*`, and we pass it, as `$1`, to the API call (not seen here, but it comes right after this block in the generated swig cpp code).
I think SWIG explicitly has a mechanism to handle this.  Let me find it.


http://reviews.llvm.org/D18459