On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > You mean they are not generic memory alloc functions?  I know that.  But 
> > they map to malloc/free which is the important point here.
> 
>      The global variables  pcre_malloc  and  pcre_free  initially
>      contain the entry points of the standard malloc() and free()
>      functions respectively. PCRE  calls  the  memory  management
>      functions  via  these  variables,  so  a calling program can
>      replace them if it  wishes  to  intercept  the  calls.  This
>      should be done before calling any PCRE functions.
> 
> pcre_malloc() is then called at various points to obtain additional
> memory.

Right, sorry, more precisely, by setting them to pemalloc/pefree they 
result in calling malloc/free anyway.  Not a direct mapping of course.  
But I think we have beaten this one to death.  Since PHP just calls 
malloc/free anyway and the wrapper layer is causing problems, simply 
removing the php layer is the obvious answer.

-Rasmus

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