On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Nicolás Brailovsky < nicolasbra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is the memory used by sqlite3_temp_directory freed by sqlite or should it > be freed by the user? > > From the documentation for sqlite3_temp_directory: > > ** the [temp_store_directory pragma] always assumes that any string > ** that this variable points to is held in memory obtained from > ** [sqlite3_malloc] and the pragma may attempt to free that memory > ** using [sqlite3_free]. > > From this I understand that the memory ownership gets transferred to > sqlite, so the responsibility for clean up should be sqlite's (presumably > in the sqlite3_shutdown function). This doesn't seem to be the case, > though. > > 1. Is the memory for sqlite3_temp_directory ever cleaned up? > Not by SQLite. That memory is the responsibility of the application that allocated it. > 2. If not, should it be? > No. To do so would break legacy applications that clean it up themselves. > 3. Could the information about the memory ownership be added to the > documentation? I believe this would also apply to other extern-definitions > as well. > I will add text encouraging people to NOT use this interface. yes. > > Cheers > > Nicolás Brailovsky > - Tech blog http://monoinfinito.wordpress.com > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
