4 Nov
2016
4 Nov
'16
3:43 p.m.
Hi Devs,
According to the Externals-HOWTO it is required to free the created inlets and outlets. This makes sense as Pd allocates memory for them and frees it on calling inlet_free() and outlet_free(). But the practice is not very common, and the (recent) pd_free also attempts to free them. It does this after checking there is a *_free() method and calling it.
Is there a good reason to free the in- and out-lets from the object *_free() method anyhow? After all, it is extra code, that could contain errors too?
Greetings,
Fred Jan