Re: Re: xTalk: Call for participation: external API extensions

[MP0werd]

>Well, here's where the problem comes in on Mac. You can't just tell a
>programmer on Mac to dispose of the pointer received. There are four kinds
>of memory, and since the ANSI C runtime libraries are not part of the OS,

You sure about that? My MPW programs get linked to stdclib (in the extensions 
folder)

>but usually statically linked into the external, every XCMD has its own
>version of free() and delete. It is not practiceable to have the XCMD
>dispose of memory it received from the host in a cross-platform way, as the
>only calls that would work this way are DisposePtr() and DisposeHandle(),
>which are inherently Mac-specific. Let the caller create the memory for the
>CopyXXX() calls and the problem is solved.