[Gdal-dev] Memory Leaks

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 8/30/05, Ned Harding <nharding at extendthereach.com> wrote:
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> 
> Thanks Frank...   
> 
> Is there any harm in calling CPLCleanupTLS in a thread and then using that
> thread again?  Will it make new structures?  If so, that will make it easy
> for me to reference count. 

Ned, 

Calling CPLCleanupTLS() at a point other than thread cleanup is
discouraged.  I'm not aware of any serious issue that it would cause
now, but it might not always be that way (and I may missing something). 
 
> Otherwise, is there any harm in calling it if it has never been initialized?

There is no harm in calling it with nothing previously initialized.

> And finally, has anything been done in OGR post 1.3 that would be risky for
> production code? 

Not that I can think of.  
 
Best regards,
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