Re: [ft] FT_Done_Face Should Not Return An Error

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> With `trusting' I mean that the code controls `FT_New_Face'.  For
>> example, a plug-in provided by the user might call `FT_New_Face',
>> delegating the deallocation to the program core.  In this case the
>> program core cannot trust that the user module always does the
>> right thing.
> 
> You mean, the caller is expected to call FT_New_Face, then pass
> ownership of the object to the intermediate layer, which then makes
> use of it and has the responsibility of calling FT_Done_Face?

No.  The user plug-in is expected to call `FT_New_Face' and other
FreeType stuff, but the deallocation is done by the core application,
let's say, by a hypothetical `clean_up_user_module' function.  Again,
this is a hypothetical, bad example.  No need actually to discuss this
further :-)


    Werner