On Tue Feb 19 16:19:14 2008, Whiteknight wrote: > On Mon Oct 22 09:49:02 2007, ptc wrote: > > In src/pmc/file.pmc there is the todo item: > > > > /* XXX Check if we need to deallocate strerror strings */ > > > > Do this. > > According to: > > http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstring/strerror.html > > The strings returned by strerror() are statically allocated, and should > not be modified or freed. I have not been able to find explicit > confirmation of this fact anywhere else, however. I'll keep looking, but > I think that we do not need to free them. > > --Andrew whitworth
All the documentation and examples I've found agree that strerr returns a pointer to a static buffer that shouldn't be free'd. I'm calling this resolved.
