On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 6:09 PM Dmitry Stogov <dmi...@zend.com> wrote:
> The fact that FFI may leak, is because it uses "unmanaged memory" (like > in real C). PHP reference counting and GC just can't handle all the > cases. It's impossible to automatically know what to do with C pointer, > when we get it from function or another structure. In this case > programmer have to care about freeing the pointer themselves (like in C). > > This obviously doesn't count as 'leaks'. If it did, we could say that the Zend Extension API leaks, as it's completely up to the developer to handle memory management. Joe - if that's your concern, I think it's fair to say it's invalid and you have nothing to worry about. Zeev
