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--- Comment #2 from Rhodri Jenkins <[email protected]>  2012-02-13 20:07:36 ---
Hi Zoltan

Thanks for answering my query.

This might be a basic question but if pcre_free is a function pointer is 
this used to supply a function pointer to the pcre code to be called when 
the pcre dll needs to delete the compiled  pcre structure returned from 
pcre_compile? Am I correct to assume that I need to free the pcre 
structure returned by pcre_compile to avoid a memory leak?

The problem I have is C# uses a reserved memory heap or managed heap and I 
will have difficulty deleting the pcre structure as it will reside in the 
normal unmanaged memory heap. I was thinking of extending the pcre3.dll by 
adding an exported C function that will free the structure. As this 
function is running outside the unmanaged memory it should be able to free 
the structure without a memory access violation . If I try to release the 
memory from inside C# I get a memory access violation exception thrown.

Rhodri Jenkins
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From:   Zoltan Herczeg <[email protected]>
To:     Rhodri L Jenkins/GBR/CSC@CSC
Date:   09/02/2012 16:37
Subject:        [Bug 1209] Calling pcre_free from C# causes a memory 
access violation
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--- Comment #1 from Zoltan Herczeg <[email protected]>  2012-02-09 
16:39:53 ---
I suspect this is incorrect:

private static extern void pcre_free(IntPtr re);

If VPCOMPAT is not defined the symbol is a function pointer not a 
function:

PCRE_EXP_DECL void  (*pcre_free)(void *);

Although I know nothing of C fence.


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