On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:30, Rob Richards wrote:
> From: Sterling Hughes
>
>
> > I think all memory handling should be done with PHP, as you can see
> > there are many places in simplexml where I avoid a copy by relying on
> > the fact that the libxml2 memory will be allocated by php's mm.
>
> I saw that. Drove me nuts for a while as libxml kept reporting it as leaks.
> Until the memory management is changed, libxml is currently allocating it
> and php is free'ing the stuff (hence why it was reporting leaks).
>
:)
> I am fine with having PHP handle all memory management, but if this is the
> case, I would say a function somewhere outside the xml extensions that is
> called in MINIT of all the libxml enabled extensions. I cant say if this
> will complicate debugging this stuff, but would like that noted as a
> possible concern (if anyone would care to comment on it).
>
Right. I think just keeping this in ext/xml or ext/dom is fine. We
don't really have any other systems for this atm.
> Then, do we even need to worry about re-entrance then?
why so?
> So, we may define the same memory handling functions a few times.
> xmlInitParser is already re-entrant safe.
That's fine, its just a function pointer assign.
-Sterling
>
> Rob
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