On Thursday, September 12, 1996 4:47 PM, Skylar[SMTP:skylar@ifconfig.intserv.com] wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Gary Barnett wrote:
>
>> I am working on having customized object descriptions save with the objects in
>> the rent system. I have the code working correcty, but am not sure of the correct
>> way to free the memory in use before assigning the new description. Here is
>> the relevant code.. Any thoughts on how to plug the resulting memory leak will
>> be most appreciated:
>
>What makes you think theres a memory leak? As far as I can see, in pl11, the
>free_obj() function in db.c (which is called from extract_obj() in handler.c)
>checks if the descriptions are pointers to the prototype obj's description,
>and if they're not it free's them... as it should be, else you'll be freeing
>up the descriptions of all objs of that num... this should peacefully work
>with what you've done and handle all the free'ing on its own...
Agreed. I guess I was looking for problems where there were none. One question though:
in do_string .. is this the correct method of assigning the 'new' description to an object
currently loaded in the game? Specifically is str_dup the correct choice?
case 's':
case 'S':
obj->short_description = str_dup(arg3);
send_to_char("Updated the short description.\r\n",ch);
break;
Where arg3 is defined as: char arg3[MAX_INPUT_LENGTH]; and is assigned it's
value from half_chop.
Thanks in advance,
Gary
- http://www.polarnet.com/Users/gbarnett/ - telnet:mud.polarnet.com (4000)
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