From 9864bf703d8f1da018c51d2b3734977c2c0a5795 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:59:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] a slightly involved work-around to prevent the debug-tracing
 from logging a free-without-alloc as the first call

---
 src/main.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 12ff3db91..1558d18f2 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -2934,8 +2934,13 @@ operate(struct Configurable *config, int argc, char *argv[])
   env = curlx_getenv("CURL_MEMDEBUG");
   if(env) {
     /* use the value as file name */
-    curl_memdebug(env);
+    char *s = strdup(env);
     curl_free(env);
+    curl_memdebug(s);
+    free(s);
+    /* this weird strdup() and stuff here is to make the curl_free() get
+       called before the memdebug() as otherwise the memdebug tracing will
+       with tracing a free() without an alloc! */
   }
   env = curlx_getenv("CURL_MEMLIMIT");
   if(env) {