[geos-devel] GEOS, Shapely, DLLs, and memory

[Charlie Savage]

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Aron Bierbaum <aronbierbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have attached a patch for both GEOS and Shapely that we have been
>> testing with for a few weeks without any problems. Does anyone have a
>> better way to address this issue?
> 
> Pretty simple patch... more C-API changes. Hmm. Perhaps GEOS 3.2 will
> be out sooner than one might expect.
> 
> I don't have the smarts to know if there's a better way.

There isn't.  For every piece of memory GEOS allocates and returns via 
the capi (or C++ api), it must provide a function to free it.

If you are using C++ you can get around it by providing a memory 
deallocator for objects returned from GEOS (say for std::string in this 
case) but for C you obviously can't do that.

Charlie


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