RE: [xml] xmlAllocOutputBuffer allocates memory I can't free

["Dominic Eales" <eales fastcom-technology com>]

Thanks heaps... I don't know how I missed that comment in the docs...

-Dominic

-----Original Message-----
From: Joachim Bauch [mailto:bauch struktur de] 
Sent: Thursday, 8 April 2004 7:36 PM
To: Dominic Eales
Cc: XML List
Subject: Re: [xml] xmlAllocOutputBuffer allocates memory I can't free


Hi,

Dominic Eales wrote:
> I am using libxml 2.26 and I call the function 
> xmlDocDumpFormatMemoryEnc
> which
> allocates some memory with the function xmlAllocOutputBuffer().
>
> The problem is when I try to free this memory with the standard C
> function free() the debugger
> says that the memory was never allocated...
>
> Why is that?

you should use the correct libxml2 API to free the allocated data, which
is "xmlFree" in this case:

http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#xmlDocDumpFormatMemoryEnc

<quote>
Note it is up to the caller of this function to free the allocated
memory with xmlFree(). </quote>

Joachim