[Mapserver-dev] MapScript issue with freeing a cloned mapObj and msFreeFontSet

[Sean Gillies]

Hi all,

First, is anybody else using the clone method, and are they finding it
useful?

The only problem I've found with it so far is that when a cloned
mapObj is garbage collected (I'm talking Python here) and msFreeMap
is called, a malloc error is raised from msFreeFontSet at this line

     if (fontset->filename)
         free(fontset->filename);

The error is:

*** malloc[717]: Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x16fefa0; 
This could b
e a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an allocated 
block; Try s
etting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug

This error never occurs with a mapObj created by the normal 
constructor, but
I am always seeing it with a cloned mapObj.  Maybe it's just a OS X 
issue?  Can
anyone help me confirm this?

thanks,
Sean

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