[Xapian-devel] PHP Latest

[Sam Liddicott]

Olly Betts wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:31:43AM +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:
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>>Can we do anything to be more sure that all the destructors are being
>>called?
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>More testing?  Or a code audit of PHP perhaps...
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>If we have an example which shows a problem, it should be easy to fix.
>Without an example, there's a lot of places to have to check.
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I mean a test case to show that all the xapian objects were destroyed by 
having them say-so in the destructor, or with valgrind or something.

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>>Olly, I'm still concerned about the case where wrapped objects are
>>referenced by other wrapped objects (meaning at the c++ xapian level)
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>Xapian shouldn't be able to create reference loops (certainly not
>involving WritableDatabase which is the only case where it actually
>matters).  So provided the SWIG glue destroys the C++ objects it
>holds, 
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Do you mean refcount-- type stuff or actually destroying?

>they'll release their references to other objects which will
>then get destroyed, and so on.
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Well this is the bit I'm not very certain of.

>Cheers,
>    Olly
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