RFR: 8303070: Memory leak in DCmdArgument<char*>::parse_value [v4]

[Justin King]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2023 02:36:36 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> If we have a default value for the char* DCmdArgument we copy it into the `_value` field using `parse_value` to make a copy in C-heap. If we then parse an actual argument value, we replace the default but don't free it. The parse method needs to use realloc.
>> 
>> Thanks to @jcking for spotting the cause.
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>> Testing: tiers 1-3 
>> 
>> Thanks.
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> David Holmes has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Update test coverage for the empty and null cases

Marked as reviewed by jcking (Committer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12737