allocate_string() question
- Posted by martin.stachon at worldonline.cz May 06, 2001
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0063_01C0D577.B8291AE0 charset="iso-8859-2" When using allocate_string() as a paramter, is it freed automatically = after the routine is called? So atom str str =3D allocate_string("string") call_something(str) free(str) is same as : call_something(allocate_string("string")) -- automatically freed ? ------=_NextPart_000_0063_01C0D577.B8291AE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-2" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>When using allocate_string() as a = paramter, is=20 it freed automatically after the routine is called? So</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>atom str</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>str =3D = allocate_string("string")</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>call_something(str)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>free(str)</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>is same as :</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE"=20 size=3D2>call_something(allocate_string("string"))</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE" size=3D2>-- automatically freed = ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Arial CE"=20 ------=_NextPart_000_0063_01C0D577.B8291AE0--