[libxml-devel] patch for memory leak

[Charlie Savage]

Hi Tom,


> I found a memory leak when the value of an attribute is accessed.  Fix 
> is simple, in function ruby_xml_attr_value in ruby_xml_attr.c, need to 
> call xmlFree:
> 
> 356,357c356,360
> 
> <     if (value != NULL)
> 
> <       return(rb_str_new2((const char*)value));
> 
> ---
> 
>>     if (value != NULL) {
> 
>>       VALUE retVal = rb_str_new2((const char*)value);
> 
>>       xmlFree(value);
> 
>>       return(retVal);
> 

Thanks for the patch.  I've applied it, and found about 6 other places 
similar issues were happening.

Charlie
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