Question about hashtables in jcf-io.c

Tue Mar 25 09:58:00 GMT 2003

Mohan Embar writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > There are two static hashtables in jcf-io.c: memoized_dirlists
 > and memoized_class_lookups. I see the htab_create calls for
 > these, but not any htab_delete calls. Are these hidden somewhere
 > that I'm missing? If not, are they not there on purpose? (The
 > only rationale I can think of for not having these is that it
 > is assumed that they will live throughout the pcocess' lifetime,
That seems reasonable.
 > but I still thought it was good practice to clean things up
 > explicitly.)
 > 
 > The same question applies to the namelists malloc-ed by scandir().
 > 
 > Thanks in advance for helping me understand this.
I have no idea. The only way for me to find out would be to study the
code.
Andrew.