[PATCH resend2] Skip the null pointer check before calling realloc

[Daniel D. Daugherty]

On 12/15/15 3:04 PM, Alex Henrie wrote:
> 2015-12-15 14:56 GMT-07:00 Daniel D. Daugherty <daniel.daugherty at oracle.com>:
>> The following bug was filed to track this issue:
>>
>> JDK-8145278 Memory leak in splitPathList
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8145278
>>
>> I added a comment to that bug report and it turns out
>> that Dmitry had a similar comment back in November...
>>
>> The discussion need to move from the mailing list to
>> the bug report.
> According to the JBS Overview [1], I cannot comment on bug reports
> until I achieve Author status, and according to the the OpenJDK
> Projects page [2], I cannot obtain Author status until at least two of
> my patches have been accepted. To date, only one patch of mine has
> been accepted into OpenJDK. So, even though there are two issues here
> (first cleaning up the code, second fixing the memory leak) I can't
> make any comment to that effect in the bug tracker.
>
> -Alex
>
> [1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/general/JBS+Overview
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#project-author

Alex,

Since this is a Serviceability bug, I'll let that team respond
from here.

Dan