Bug #9645: [PATCH] variable.c: avoid memory leak on const redefinition

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: normalperson (Eric Wong)
• Target version: 2.2.0
• ruby -v: ruby 2.2.0dev (2014-03-16 trunk 45349) [x86_64-linux]
• Backport: 2.0.0: DONE, 2.1: DONE

[normalperson (Eric Wong)]

I noticed this leak because I was making constants use ihash from Feature 9614.
I hope nobody is really affected by this leak.

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset r45350.

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variable.c: avoid memory leak on const redefinition

• variable.c (rb_const_set): delete existing entry on redefinition
  [Bug #9645]
• test/ruby/test_const.rb (test_redefinition): test for leak

[nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: REQUIRED, 2.1: REQUIRED to 2.0.0: DONE, 2.1: REQUIRED

r45350 was backported to ruby_2_0_0 at r45373.

[nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: DONE, 2.1: REQUIRED to 2.0.0: DONE, 2.1: DONE

Backported into ruby_2_1 branch at r46301.