Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 35253: /trunk//trunk/doc/: README.de
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From: "news.gmane.com" <AndreasSander1@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 12:45:40 +0100
"Guy Harris" <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>
> On Jan 3, 2011, at 12:50 AM, news.gmane.com wrote:
>> Does this replaces tvb_get_ephemeral_faked_unicode?
>> The function name suggests, that the return value must be released.
This is not true. See below.

>
> Within the context of Wireshark, no, it doesn't; it suggests, due to the
> "ephemeral" in the name, that it's automatically released when dissection
> is started on a new packet,
Oh, that's my mistake. I completely mis-understood the meaning of 
'ephemeral'. So the function already supports, what I requested for.

>> Is there
>> also a function returning a string that will be garbage collected?
>
> No - Wireshark doesn't do garbage collection

I had the limited lifetime in mind when talking about G.C. Don't know where 
I read about this naming in context of limited lifetime. I must be a bit 
confused here.

--
Andy