Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] towards clean leak-checker output

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 10:42:07 +0900

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

> In fact, the whole extract_argv0_path thing is pointless without
> RUNTIME_PREFIX. So I think one reasonable fix is just:
>
> diff --git a/exec_cmd.c b/exec_cmd.c
> index fb94aeba9c..09f05c3bc3 100644
> --- a/exec_cmd.c
> +++ b/exec_cmd.c
> @@ -5,7 +5,10 @@
>  #define MAX_ARGS	32
>  
>  static const char *argv_exec_path;
> +
> +#ifdef RUNTIME_PREFIX
>  static const char *argv0_path;
> +#endif
>  
>  char *system_path(const char *path)
>  {
> @@ -40,6 +43,7 @@ char *system_path(const char *path)
>  
>  void git_extract_argv0_path(const char *argv0)
>  {
> +#ifdef RUNTIME_PREFIX
>  	const char *slash;
>  
>  	if (!argv0 || !*argv0)
> @@ -49,6 +53,7 @@ void git_extract_argv0_path(const char *argv0)
>  
>  	if (slash)
>  		argv0_path = xstrndup(argv0, slash - argv0);
> +#endif
>  }
>  
>  void git_set_argv_exec_path(const char *exec_path)
>
> -Peff

Yeah, I kind of like this (I would have reduced the ifdef noise by
leaving a totally-unused argv0_path in the BSS, though).