The patch in question was a partial (apparently incomplete? It's hard to tell) fix for the mess of osd_free vs global_free vs mame_free vs free functions used in newui and wimgtool. I think Firewave can't actually truly fix it without messing with some SDL OSD code which R. Belmont has a lock on, due to some problems with dependencies.
R. Belmont: maybe talk to firewave and see if you can figure out what exactly needs fixing? It sounded bad on IRC.

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