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From: jrl@msbit.com (Jim Lawson)
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Subject: Re: Odd program behaviour
To: pgsql-interfaces@hub.org
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:31:50 -0800 (PST)
Cc: James@msbit.com, Thompson@msbit.com, <jamest@math.ksu.edu>
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We ran into similar problems integrating a third party library into a perl
application with SWIG. There appeared to be some confusion between perl and
SWIG over references/pointers and allocating memory for the referred/pointed to
object. We worked around the problem by making sure the memory allocation
happened in perl (by initializing the reference with a suitably large object).