Offtopic is anyone familiar with JNA Do you need to free mem kotlinlang #tornadofx

Offtopic: is anyone familiar with JNA? Do you need...

alex

11/19/2018, 8:19 PM

Offtopic: is anyone familiar with JNA? Do you need to free memory after? Like

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val ptr = PointerByReference()
winapi_call(ptr)
// utilize ptr value
free(ptr) // ???

louiscad

11/19/2018, 10:09 PM

I assume you would need, and it could be safer to free it in a

finally

block without potentially failing code before in the

finally

block

alex

11/20/2018, 6:58 AM

Thanks, I think you're right!