Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:42:00PM +0100, Lee Kindness wrote:
>>Should the input pointers be NULL initialised? How should the memory
>>be freed?
>
>
> A simple free() will do. You also can free all automatically
> allocated memory from the most recent executed statement by calling
> ECPGfree_auto_mem(). But this is not documented and will never be.
>
> The correct way is to free(array1) and free(array2) while libecpg will
> free the internal structures when the next statement is executed.
Never, never mix these two! ECPGfree_auto_mem will free even memory
which has already been free'd by the user, perhaps we should get rid of
this method (any allocated memory regions are stored in a list, if you
never call ECPGfree_auto_mem, this list grows and grows).
Christof
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