[LLVMdev] Questions about deallocation responsibilities

[Rodney M. Bates]

Thanks.  These posts help a lot.

On 12/02/2014 01:18 PM, David Blaikie wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Rodney M. Bates <rodney_bates at lcwb.coop <mailto:rodney_bates at lcwb.coop>> wrote:
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>     I am, from a front end, calling functions like LLVMModuleCreateWithName, found
>     in Core.h, ultimately calling LLVMWriteBitcodeToFile, found in BitWriter.h.
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>     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.
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>     What about, for example, llvm::DIBuilder::__DICreateCompileUnit?  I haven't
>     been able so far to find a companion dispose for this object.
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> 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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