Michael P. Hutchens, M.D., M.A. wrote in message <11664@palm-dev-forum>...
>
>I gather there are two ways of handling CharPtr's:
Three.
>
>VoidHand JoeShmoeH;
>CharPtr JoeShmoeTxt;
>
>MemHandleNew JoeShmoeH(JOE_SIZE);
>JoeShmoeTxt = MemHandleLock(JoeShmoeH);
>
>and
> CharPtr JoeShmoeTxt[JOE_SIZE];
and
CharPtr JoeShmoeTxt;
JoeSmoeTxt = MemPtrNew(JOE_SIZE);
>
>Now my question is this: in the first case, one simply releases the
>memory when one finishes with:
>
>MemHandleUnlock(JoeShmoeH);
>MemHandleFree(JoeShmoeH);
>
>How do you assure that the memory in the second case is released and
>not leaked?
That's just the way C (and C++) works. You declare a local
variable on the stack when you enter the scope, and when
you leave the scope, the locals are deallocated.
Of course, if your array declaration is a global, it is never
deallocated. ... Either way, you don't have to worry about
it being released or leaked.
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