Method Ram_session_component::alloc()

[Norman Feske]

Hi Frank,

Frank Kaiser wrote:
> There is a small glitch in the given method found in file
> /base/src/core/ram_session_component.cc/:
> 
> 1.       In line 141 a new /Dataspace_component/ is generated and
> assigned to pointer /*ds/.
> 
> 2.       In line 144 the pointer is used to call method /_clear_ds()/
> (defined for instance in file
> /base-okl4/src/core/ram_session_support.cc/). There (line 44) pointer
> /*ds/ is dereferenced w/o any validity check.
> 
> 3.       In line 146 a null pointer check is applied on /*ds/.
> 
> If the /new/ operator in line 141 is expected to return NULL in some
> cases, then the null pointer check in line 146 should precede the usage
> of the pointer in line 144, otherwise the code of line 146ff would be
> obsolete.

thank you very much for reporting that. The fix should be in the
subversion repository by now.

Regards
Norman