Re: Free-ing memory: not springing leaks?

[Matthew Heaney <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net>]

chris <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> writes:

> What if there is no call to free memory?

Then your binding is missing at least one operation.


> For example, the library loader for linux error mechanism is to return
> an error msg describing the problem.  Once you have it appears to be
> your problem what you do with it.  There is no call present in the
> library to return the memory.

This is an Ada binding?  Who wrote it?

 
> Should I bind to a C compiled function to do this?  Perhaps in the
> case of linux, to the free function in the std lib?  I guess you are
> left to free it yourself in C because it provides "free" and it is
> natural to use it in C.

If you know it was malloc'd, then yes, just write a binding to free and
call that.