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  r83241 | mark.dickinson | 2010-07-29 22:44:47 +0100 (Thu, 29 Jul 2010) | 9 lines

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    r83239 | mark.dickinson | 2010-07-29 22:41:59 +0100 (Thu, 29 Jul 2010) | 2 lines

    Issue #9422:  Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
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diff --git a/Modules/_struct.c b/Modules/_struct.c
index 936e8af..b85d106 100644
--- a/Modules/_struct.c
+++ b/Modules/_struct.c
@@ -1404,6 +1404,9 @@
         PyErr_NoMemory();
         return -1;
     }
+    /* Free any s_codes value left over from a previous initialization. */
+    if (self->s_codes != NULL)
+        PyMem_FREE(self->s_codes);
     self->s_codes = codes;
 
     s = fmt;