FreeTDS Development Group

[Daniel Parnell <me AT danielparnell.com>]

The documentation for both strdup and asprintf say that the memory  
returned can be deallocated with free.
I tried running something similar to the sample below and it worked as  
expected.  It's really weird!

Daniel

On 08/03/2009, at 10:42 PM, Frediano Ziglio wrote:

> 2009/3/8 Daniel Parnell <me AT danielparnell.com>:
> > Here is the version output from gcc
> >
> > i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490)
> >
> > I wasn't aware that FreeTDS used it's own memory allocator.
> > I've not had any problems like this with any of the installs I've  
> > done
> > in the past (and I've done a lot of them).
> >
> > Daniel
>
> no, no FreeTDS haven't any special memory allocator, just
> malloc/calloc/free. However even strdup and (v)asprintf return
> pointers to be freed with free so they should use same allocators. It
> would be interesting to understand which libraries your compiler
> use... mmm... try to compile a simple program like (mem.c)
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <string.h>
>
> int main()
> {
>   char *s = strdup("hi");
>   void *p = malloc(100);
>   free(p);
>  return 0;
> }
>
> with
>
> gcc -o mem -Wall -s -O2 mem.c
>
> and pass result (mem)
>
> freddy77
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