[m-dev.] for review: shut up a warning

[Zoltan Somogyi]

On 18-Jan-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> That code has a memory leak in non-conservative GC grades.
> In non-conservative GC grades, the memory will get allocated
> with malloc(), and never freed.  It should instead get
> allocated on the Mercury heap, so that it will get
> reclaimed on backtracking (or by the accurate garbage
> collector, when that is implemented).
> 
> That's why the code should use MR_make_string(), as I suggested
> earlier.

Fergus, MR_make_string doesn't do what you think it does. I will change the
code to call MR_make_aligned_string_copy.

Zoltan.
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