[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Ruleset Question

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

=?BIG5?B?vbKr7bXY?= <iquin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is the caller responsible for free()ing memory returned by
> secfile_lookup_str_default()? 

No, the lookup_str functions return a pointer into to the internal
registry data structures, which should definitely not be freed by the 
caller.  (They are free-d in section_file_free(); actually, if you tried 
it free() would probably segfault or similar, because the strings are 
actually pointers into an sbuffer, rather than individually malloced 
objects.)

secfile_lookup_str_vec() is a bit different but has a comment which 
explains things (and in passing implies the above).

-- David