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9644 :: Is it allowed to use dealloc instead of free?

• sls1005 (orginal) [2022-11-23T15:33:48+01:00] view original

  Is it allowed to use dealloc in Nim to free a C object allocated in C (via malloc)?

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• Araq (orginal) [2022-11-23T15:39:46+01:00] view original

  No, definitely not. malloc requires free and alloc requires dealloc and new requires delete.

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• xigoi (orginal) [2022-11-23T20:05:29+01:00] view original

  How do you free in Nim?

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• planetis (orginal) [2022-11-23T20:11:06+01:00] view original

  Just do import system/ansi_c there is c_malloc and c_free

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