Re: [xml] correct version of libxml2

[Jonah Petri <jpetri izotope com>]

Just out of curiousity - it _should_ be ok to call this within a library on a statically linked copy of 
libxml2, right?

Jonah

On Apr 26, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 08:33:18AM -0700, Marco Rogers wrote:
> > Daniel:
> >
> > Can you shed a little more light on why this call isn't always needed? In what situations is it necessary 
> > to call it?
>
>  This frees up a few global variables allocated by libxml2. A few
> kilobytes at most, but if they get deallocated while somehow the library
> is still in use, the application is very likely to crash.
>  So never call this in a library.
>  In an app the only safe place to call it is close to the exit
> It's still useful to make sure there is no memory leak when running a
> program under valgrind or equivalent memory checker.
>
> Daniel
>
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