[gdal-dev] GDALClose

[Frank Warmerdam]

Adeel Raza wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> 
> I recently called GDALClose() on a virtual dataset (created from 
> GDALAutoCreateWarpedVRT()), and it was causing writing violation errors 
> and privileged instruction errors on the line following the GDALClose() 
> call. Can you shed any light on this matter? Thanks.

Adeel,

Not really - at least not without further information about what your code
was doing.

One possibility is that you were explicitly closing the datasets referenced
by the virtual dataset and when it closed and tried to deallocate them a
double free occurred.

Best regards,
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