From 893bff51bcf220b724a812d340d878b5fb8ce911 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aliaksey Kandratsenka <alkondratenko@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 11:35:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 23/39] Avoid static initialization of pprof path for
 symbolization.

This is one of the things that chrome's fork fixes, but with c++11 we
can do it even nicer. Proposed fix is to use c++11 local static
variable to ensure that pprof path is initialized once on as-needed
basis.
---
 src/symbolize.cc | 20 +++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/symbolize.cc b/src/symbolize.cc
index 88609ff..4c71010 100755
--- a/src/symbolize.cc
+++ b/src/symbolize.cc
@@ -67,15 +67,17 @@
 using std::string;
 using tcmalloc::DumpProcSelfMaps;   // from sysinfo.h
 
-
-DEFINE_string(symbolize_pprof,
-              EnvToString("PPROF_PATH", "pprof"),
-              "Path to pprof to call for reporting function names.");
-
-// heap_profile_table_pprof may be referenced after destructors are
+// pprof may be used after destructors are
 // called (since that's when leak-checking is done), so we make
 // a more-permanent copy that won't ever get destroyed.
-static string* g_pprof_path = new string(FLAGS_symbolize_pprof);
+static char* get_pprof_path() {
+  static char* result = ([] () {
+      string pprof_string = EnvToString("PPROF_PATH", "pprof");
+      return strdup(pprof_string.c_str());
+    })();
+
+  return result;
+}
 
 // Returns NULL if we're on an OS where we can't get the invocation name.
 // Using a static var is ok because we're not called from a thread.
@@ -144,7 +146,7 @@ int SymbolTable::Symbolize() {
     PrintError("Cannot figure out the name of this executable (argv0)");
     return 0;
   }
-  if (access(g_pprof_path->c_str(), R_OK) != 0) {
+  if (access(get_pprof_path(), R_OK) != 0) {
     PrintError("Cannot find 'pprof' (is PPROF_PATH set correctly?)");
     return 0;
   }
@@ -206,7 +208,7 @@ int SymbolTable::Symbolize() {
       unsetenv("HEAPPROFILE");
       unsetenv("HEAPCHECK");
       unsetenv("PERFTOOLS_VERBOSE");
-      execlp(g_pprof_path->c_str(), g_pprof_path->c_str(),
+      execlp(get_pprof_path(), get_pprof_path(),
              "--symbols", argv0, NULL);
       _exit(3);  // if execvp fails, it's bad news for us
     }
-- 
1.8.3.1