Usage of different heaps causes memory leak with SWIG C# on Win32

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 9/21/05, Tamas Szekeres <szekeres.tamas at freemail.hu> wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> Calling mapObj.GetProjection() causes unexpected break using the debug
> build of SWIG mapscript with C# (Invalid Address specified to RtlFreeHeap).
>
> The reason of the problem is that the returned string allocated in
> libmap.dll and freed in mapscript.dll using different heaps with CRT.
>
> The resulting behaviour is that the returning string will not be freed at
> all.
>
> This issue applies to all off the functions passing memory blocks using
> this way.
>
> This problem could be resolved by replacing free() to msFree() in
> CSharp_mapObj_getProjection, but a more general soution would be expected.

Tamas,

I would think a more general solution would be to build both using
MSVCRT.DLL (ie. the /MD flag).

Best regards,

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