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--- Comment #3 from Philip Hazel <[email protected]>  2012-02-28 15:11:56 
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> 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?

Did you manage to resolve this? I so, I would like to close this issue. By
default, pcre_free is a pointer to the system function free(), just as
pcre_malloc points to malloc(). They are indirected so that applications can
catch them if they need to.

Philip


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