[gdal-dev] Question on OGR handle types

[Stefan Moebius]

Hi,

In May 2008, a couple of changes where made to improve type checking.

See http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2008-May/017059.html
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset/14435
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset/14441

Our code is using the function

OGRCoordinateTransformation* OGRCreateCoordinateTransformation
	(OGRSpatialReference * poSource,
	 OGRSpatialReference * poTarget)

and with the upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6, we now cannot properly destroy the 
OGRCoordinateTransformation anymore (at least in debug mode).

The documentation of that create function says:

> Create transformation object.
> 
> This is the same as the C function OCTNewCoordinateTransformation().
> 
> Input spatial reference system objects are assigned by copy (calling clone() method) and no ownership transfer occurs.
> 
> The delete operator, or OCTDestroyCoordinateTransformation() should be used to destroy transformation objects.

As we are linking the GDAL dynamically, using delete is not really an option 
as we cannot predict what heap was used to create the object. The destroy 
function, however, requires a parameter of type 
OGRCoordinateTransformationH, which we cannot cleanly cast to anymore for 
that change mentioned at the beginning.

What are we missing here? How is this supposed to be used?

Any help is appreciated.

Regards,
Stefan

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