[geos-devel] Odd problem on Vista

[Frank Warmerdam]

Sean Gillies wrote:
> I'm using Python's ctypes and libffi to access functions in GEOS.
> GEOSGeomToWKT and GEOSGeomToWKB_buf each allocate memory that must be
> freed by the caller. This has been no problem for me on Linux or Windows
> 2000, I simply free the memory with libc.free or msvcrt.free. There
> seems to be an authorization problem on Vista with the result that
> msvcrt.free cannot access the memory allocated by geos.dll. This is the
> DLL I got from Artem the other day. I'm thinking that the solution is
> for GEOS to export its own free function ala msFree in MapServer, yes?

Sean,

I can't see any harm in that.

Best regards,
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