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Re: [YET-ANOTHER-MERGE-REQUEST] Memory leak in `out' and `caller-owned'
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [YET-ANOTHER-MERGE-REQUEST] Memory leak in `out' and `caller-owned' strings |
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Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:17:16 +0100 |
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address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> I was about to add a test function to `test-standard-spec.scm' but I
> stopped when I found `gw-test-out-args' whose last argument typespec
> options are `(mchars out callee-owned)'. What can possibly be the
> meaning of `out callee-owned'?
It can be: "the callee is returning a pointer to a constant string that
doesn't need to be freed at all"!
Ok, got it. ;-)
Ludovic.