memory 2004-10-08 - By Olcerin Aristiis
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I am not an advanced enough C coder to have just
started tinkering with this without alot of study, so
I am posing it as a question instead.
The difference as I understand it, in str_dup and
STRALLOC is that STRALLOC adds it to a hash table.
Before I go into manical study to learn the mysteries
of the hash table, would it be possible to code a
single free function that detects whether it's on this
table or not (or in other words, are we freeing a
string that was allocated by str_dup or STRALLOC), and
then frees memory accordingly?
Yes, it would seem rather unnecessary, but judging
from the knowledgable, great coders in the past that
have shared their SMAUG code, and even the codebase
itself, who mistakenly intermingled between the two,
it would seem that a single function like that would
really be a nice safety net.
I just wondered if one of you more adumacated could
answer this before I spend alot of effort studying up
on it just to find out it was a silly notion for some
reason.
Thanks.
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