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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Memory leak for a protected element having pending events in ImageLoader"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146538#c8">Comment # 8</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Memory leak for a protected element having pending events in ImageLoader"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146538">bug 146538</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:kyounga.ra@gmail.com" title="kyounga <kyounga.ra@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">kyounga</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=146538#c6">comment #6</a>)
<span class="quote">> Comment on <span class="bz_obsolete"><a href="attachment.cgi?id=255993&action=diff" name="attach_255993" title="Use RefPtr not calling ref/deref() directly">attachment 255993</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=255993&action=edit" title="Use RefPtr not calling ref/deref() directly">[details]</a></span>
> Use RefPtr not calling ref/deref() directly
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> View in context:
> <a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=255993&action=review">https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=255993&action=review</a>
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> > Source/WebCore/loader/ImageLoader.cpp:372
> > - element().deref();
> > + m_protectedElement.clear();
>
> Change this to:
> m_protectedElement = nullptr;
>
> With this code, people have to ask themselves "what kind of object is this,
> and what does clear do?"
> With nullptr assignment, anybody not familiar with the code knows it is a
> pointer being null'ed out.</span >
I thought calling clear() is more explicit. Also, I understand your thought.
I attached a changed patch.
Thanks for your comment.</pre>
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