Re: [xml] Is this condition (xmlFreeNodeList) supposed to crash?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:53:33PM +0000, Jose Commins wrote:
>       Function: xmlFreeNodeList
>       void    xmlFreeNodeList                 (xmlNodePtr cur)
>
>       Free a node and all its siblings, this is a recursive behaviour, all 
> the children are freed too.
>
>       cur:
>       the first node in the list
>
>
>       ...  to me its not clear what the precise difference between these 
>       two are.

  The difference between freeing a list and freeing one item of a list 
should not need two pages of explanations.

> Moreover, xmlFreeNodeList does not mention anything about 
> xmlUnlinkNode.
>
>
>       What's more, this is particularly puzzling:
>
>
>       Function: xmlCleanupMemory
>       void    xmlCleanupMemory                (void)
>
>       Free up all the memory associated with memorys

  this function is mostly internal. I updated the header, you should not
call it directly.

>       So does this mean it frees up all memory including new nodes created 
> with xmlNewDocText

  No. It frees only the memory allocated by the library for its own use.
If you call this you should not use the library or have remaining documents
around.

Daniel

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