CNI Memory Management

Thu Jun 12 00:12:00 GMT 2003

On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 12:07 PM, Craig A. Vanderborgh wrote:
> My JNI-to-CNI porting work is going very well. CNI is a wonderful
> thing, at least compared to JNI!!
>> Anyway, my question is this: When I use things like JvNewByteArray() 
> to
> create a byte array, do I have to free it when I'm finished using it?
> Or are such CNI allocations handled by GC?

Yes - Java objects are always allocated by the GC. JvNewByteArray() is 
no exception - think of it as the CNI equivalent of "new byte[...]" in 
Java.
Bryce.