Re: question about core/base/Old/LinkedList.m (prehistory)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Saturday, November 10, 2001, at 08:41 PM, Matej Kosik wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Even though libgnustep* seem not to be using any of the classes
> defined in `core/base/Old' directory, these files were not thrown away
> from cvs so I think I can still ask the following thing:

Perhaps they should be ... I hate throwing anything away - but that
stuff is most definately 'unsupported'.

> I don't understand why in `core/base/Old/LinkedList.m' I do not find
> any method which releases the particular `LinkedListNode' objects
> belonging to that list. (???)
>
> should there be something like this?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> - dealloc
> {
>         LinkedListNode* link;
>
>         FOR_COLLECTION (self, link)
>         {
>                 RELEASE(link);
>         }
>         END_FOR_COLLECTION (self);
> }
> ----------------------------------------------------

Probably ... I know that old code has lots of bugs and memory leaks
are quite common.