From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cc05aeb5e0d8b475 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-19 06:22:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Free-ing memory: not springing leaks? References: <2TM8b.1013$Nb6.297@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net> <9JY8b.1963$WI3.25442@newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net> <1noab.7755$BT1.356918@news20.bellglobal.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:07:32 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1063976839 198.96.223.163 (Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:07:19 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:07:19 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42681 Date: 2003-09-19T09:07:32-04:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > >> There is no mention in the man pages that it is "allocated", >> or that you should free it. > > In fact, on my Sun box, the dlerror man page explicitly says that > the returned value may point to a static area. There is hope for documentation yet! ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg