[redland-dev] [Redland librdf RDF API 0000475]: Freeing a counted_string returned by redland on a modern Windows system crashes

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=475 
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Reported By:                monkeyiq
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Redland librdf RDF API
Issue ID:                   475
Category:                   portability
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   crash
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2011-10-12 00:21
Last Modified:              2011-10-12 00:21
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Summary:                    Freeing a counted_string returned by redland on a
modern Windows system crashes
Description: 
When using a CRT environment in windows it appears you can not directly free() a
pointer to memory which was returned from a shared library. Attempts to do so
result in a crash. Instead you must call a function in that shared library which
itself will then free() the memory.

I am having trouble freeing the string returned from:
librdf_serializer_serialize_model_to_counted_string()

Would it be OK to add a general purpose redland_free() to the code so that
client applications such as abiword can use that function instead of calling
free() directly.


Steps to Reproduce: 
I have a sample application here:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2011/Jul/0067.html

Note that this works OK on older windows, but 64 bit windows 7 causes an issue.
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2011-10-12 00:21 monkeyiq       New Issue                                    
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