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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 52679: /trunk/ /trunk/epan/: stats_t

From: Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 17:22:06 -0400
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:17 PM,  <mmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Not sure which memory allocation should be used here (using wmem caused crash), but this revision can at least be easily backported to 1.10 where the bug was reported.

ephemeral is fine for now - I plan to fix UAT code eventually to
expect (and free) g_malloced memory for err. There are no exceptions
that can be thrown in UAT code so there is no real need for wmem
otherwise, and creating an entire pool for it seems like overkill.

Evan