[2252] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Memory allocation/freeing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Thu Feb 20 02:08:58 1997
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 02:04:57 -0500
To: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Richard Basch" <basch@lehman.com>, krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9702200358.AA29207@kangaroo.mit.edu>
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@lehman.com>
On Wed, 19-February-1997, "Ezra Peisach" wrote to "Richard Basch, krbdev@MIT.EDU, epeisach@MIT.EDU" saying:
> How about krb5_get_default_realm..... Or can we let people free a char * themselves....
Unfortunately, we cannot let them free a (char *) themselves... Unlike
Unix, Windows has a segmented memory structure, and the DLL has a
separate address space. The DLL should free whatever it allocates, and
the application should do likewise. This segmented memory architecture
has driven many of the recent changes that I have checked into the tree.
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