[LLVMdev] Questions about deallocation responsibilities

[David Blaikie]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Rodney M. Bates <rodney_bates at lcwb.coop>
wrote:

> I am, from a front end, calling functions like LLVMModuleCreateWithName,
> found
> in Core.h, ultimately calling LLVMWriteBitcodeToFile, found in BitWriter.h.
>
> Do I correctly presume, from the existence of LLVMDisposeModule, that
> I am responsible for calling it when I'm done?  Will I need to do deeper
> disposing myself?  I presume at least I will need to free strings I
> allocated
> myself, such as the module name I passed in.
>
> What about, for example, llvm::DIBuilder::DICreateCompileUnit?  I haven't
> been able so far to find a companion dispose for this object.


Metadata is owned by the LLVMContext on construction. (except temporary
metadata, which must be destroyed manually (there's a corresponding destroy
function in llvm::MDNode) usually after RAUWing it with something else).


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