From: Florian Krohm <florian@eich-krohm.de>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:04:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a clarifying comment.
X-Git-Tag: svn/VALGRIND_3_11_0~773
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=71443eff491f57c39d6c23398b309a5a5f823ad9;p=thirdparty%2Fvalgrind.git

Add a clarifying comment.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@14813
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diff --git a/coregrind/m_redir.c b/coregrind/m_redir.c
index a4738e2427..5075b061d2 100644
--- a/coregrind/m_redir.c
+++ b/coregrind/m_redir.c
@@ -1181,6 +1181,10 @@ static void add_hardwired_spec (const  HChar* sopatt, const HChar* fnpatt,
    vg_assert(topSpecs->next == NULL);
    vg_assert(topSpecs->seginfo == NULL);
    /* FIXED PARTS */
+   /* Note, that these CONST_CAST will not cause a problem, in the sense
+      that VG_(redir_notify_delete_DebugInfo) will delete them. The reason
+      is that the TopSpec here has seginfo == NULL and such a TopSpec will
+      never be freed. See the asserts at the beginning of said function. */
    spec->from_sopatt = CONST_CAST(HChar *,sopatt);
    spec->from_fnpatt = CONST_CAST(HChar *,fnpatt);
    spec->to_addr     = to_addr;