Re: Question about Python bindings

Branko Čibej wrote:
> It's not obvious from the code snippet above that anyone forgot to
> destroy a hash or clear a pool -- I don't see any pool creation there,
> so obviously there should be no pool destruction either. And the only
> way to destroy a hash is to clear its container pool, right?

That snippet is from swig/python/libsvn_swig_py/swigutil_py.c, specifically
svn_swig_py_mergeinfo_from_dict() which is passed in a pool by the caller. The
usage I was questioning comes from swig/include/svn_containers.swg:

   $1 = svn_swig_py_mergeinfo_from_dict($input, _global_pool);

where the function I quoted is being passed the _global_pool (which AIUI only
gets cleared at program's end).

So if there is no way to destroy the hash apart from clearing the pool, then in
some sense, it *is* leaking where I noticed. But as glasser pointed out, there
is a lot of code that assumes that this isn't a problem, because an error during
creation /usually/ means you are just going to bubble up the error and then tear
down everything.

I'm was just trying to understand the original usage and make sure that I wasn't
copying some code that was [already] doing the wrong thing.

Thank you both!

John

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Received on 2008-05-22 12:27:52 CEST