Magnus Hagander wrote: > have this about PQfreemem(): > > Frees memory allocated by <application>libpq</>, particularly > <function>PQescapeByteaConn</function>, > <function>PQescapeBytea</function>, > <function>PQunescapeBytea</function>, > and <function>PQnotifies</function>. > It is needed by Microsoft Windows, which cannot free memory across > DLLs, unless multithreaded DLLs (<option>/MD</option> in VC6) are used. > On other platforms, this function is the same as the standard library > function <function>free()</>. > </para> > > > > That's also a very old comment, dating back to when we could build libpq > with VC6 only and nothing else. Now we can build with MinGW, Borland, > VC2005 and I think also VC2003. Which would add the note that this is > also depending on *which compiler* and *which compiler version*. > The /MD mention is just one of several different options to select the > runtime libraries, so it seems really misplaced. > > Now, there are two options for this. Either we fix it (I can put > together a patch), or we remove it altogether. To me, it seems to be > just an implementation detail and some kind of explanation why we're > doing it - which would live better in a source code comment than in the > docs. > This includes the part about how it's just the same as free() on other > platforms. That's just an implementation detail, and I assume we don't > want people to rely on that - in case we ever want to change it in the > future for some reason. (the doc for the other functions say you have to > use PQfreemem without mentioning any exceptions) > > Thoughts? Rip out or update?
Are you saying that almost all Win32 binaries and libraries now can free across DLLs? -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
