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pointer question
- Subject: pointer question
- From: egraves(at)socrates.Berkeley.EDU (Ted Graves)
- Date: 22 Mar 2001 01:43:48 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
- Organization: University of California at Berkeley
- Xref: news.doit.wisc.edu comp.lang.idl-pvwave:24079
Hi all,
Another lurker question ... let's say you define a pointer using the PTR_NEW
function and assign to a variable x. As long as you keep track of x and don't
reassign x and lose the pointer to the heap variable, things are great. You
can remove the heap variable from memory using the PTR_FREE procedure.
But now let's say i have a function TEST that takes a pointer as an argument,
and i want to create a pointer on the fly to use in TEST. So i do something
like
result = TEST(PTR_NEW(value))
where value is whatever i want the heap variable to be. What happens to the
heap variable assigned in this statement after TEST returns? I'm assuming
from that because of the way it was created, a heap variable now exists that i
can't easily get rid of without using HEAP_GC.
Me and my sloppy programming ...
Ted Graves
Magnetic Resonance Science Center, UCSF