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--- Comment #4 from Rhodri Jenkins <rjenkins22@???> 2012-02-28 15:32:49 ---
Hi Philip
Yes I did resolve this in a fashion. What I did was add a new function
which I exported from the pcre3.dll. This was void pcre_free_regex (void *
ptr) which call free internally.
This function just calls free internally on the pointer to the regex
structure I got from pcre_compile. The reason why I need to do this I
believe is that I am calling pcre from C#. There were not way I could find
to call pcre_free successfully because its is a function pointer and I
could not free up the structure pointer because it is allocated on the
unmanaged memory space. The simple exported function pcre_free_regex
worked just fine.
The other problem I encountered in the windows build files supplied fro
MSVC 2008 do not contain the necessary link and manifest settings to
generate a manifest file. Without a manifest the dll will generate a c run
time access error when it attempts to lad the msvcr80.dll. I played around
with this for quite a while and I got past the msvcr80.dll load issue then
it fell over again trying to load another dependent dll, either
kernel32.dll or ntldll.dll. In the end I migrated the project from MSVC
2008 to MSVC 2010 which allows you to load dll's without a manifest which
is much easier to achieve.
If you are interest in these changes I can supply the amended code with
some instructions. There is basically one extra c file with a three line
function pcre_free_regex.. A function prototype for this function in
pcre.h and migrated solution and project files.
Rhodri Jenkins
Application Architect
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From: Philip Hazel <ph10@???>
To: Rhodri L Jenkins/GBR/CSC@CSC
Date: 28/02/2012 15:09
Subject: [Bug 1209] Calling pcre_free from C# causes a memory
access violation
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--- Comment #3 from Philip Hazel <ph10@???> 2012-02-28
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> This might be a basic question but if pcre_free is a function pointer is
> this used to supply a function pointer to the pcre code to be called
when
> the pcre dll needs to delete the compiled pcre structure returned from
> pcre_compile? Am I correct to assume that I need to free the pcre
> structure returned by pcre_compile to avoid a memory leak?
Did you manage to resolve this? I so, I would like to close this issue. By
default, pcre_free is a pointer to the system function free(), just as
pcre_malloc points to malloc(). They are indirected so that applications
can
catch them if they need to.
Philip
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