[geos-devel] An Immodest Proposal

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
> It turns out it is a quite small modification, and works pretty well:
...
>  printf("initgeos\n");
>  initGEOSMemory(malloc, free);
...
> So, something in C++ is doing a couple allocations before we can slip
> in and get our other function in place. But we can get all the big
> stuff caught no problem.

Paul,

Your approach looks fine to me.  In particular i'm pleased to see
the function to install the custom allocator is not part of the regular
init function and so does not change the old api or abi in an
incompatible way.

The initialization time allocations are a bit unfortunate.  In
fact for reasons like this and others I hate having objects
with dynamic components created during the program
startup (dll loading) process.

Best regards,
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