Hi Rhodri,

> 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?

I am not sure I fully understand your long sentence, but I think the answer is 
yes. Initially it points to a default function which do the free in general 
case, but you can redirect the alloc / free functions for your own application 
by changing those function pointers.

> 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

I think that is the best option.

Regards,
Zoltan


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