On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:00:21PM +0200, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> BTW, by reading the man page for XCreateImage, I found this :
> 
>  'Note that when the image is created using XCreateImage, XGetImage,
>   or XSubImage, the destroy procedure that the XDestroyImage function
>   calls frees both the image structure and the data pointed to by the
>   image structure.'
> 
> I understand this as saying that calling XDestroyImage on an image
> created with XCreateImage (our case here) will free itself the image
> pointer... That would lead to a crash in our case at it would free a
> HeapAlloc allocated memory block, no ?

Yes it free()s image->data if it is non-NULL.  So you can either
HeapFree the image data first and set the pointer to NULL or supply
your own destroy routine and pointer image->f.destroy_image at it.

Huw.
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