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Question about hashtables in jcf-io.c


Mohan Embar writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > There are two static hashtables in jcf-io.c: memoized_dirlists
 > and memoized_class_lookups. I see the htab_create calls for
 > these, but not any htab_delete calls. Are these hidden somewhere
 > that I'm missing? If not, are they not there on purpose? (The
 > only rationale I can think of for not having these is that it
 > is assumed that they will live throughout the pcocess' lifetime,

That seems reasonable.

 > but I still thought it was good practice to clean things up
 > explicitly.)
 > 
 > The same question applies to the namelists malloc-ed by scandir().
 > 
 > Thanks in advance for helping me understand this.

I have no idea.  The only way for me to find out would be to study the
code.

Andrew.


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