Re: [Bug-readline] readline crashes when used from msvc

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/15/16 11:16 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>> Readline uses xmalloc and xrealloc to allocate its memory, and, since at
> least readline-5.0, provides an xfree() function to free it.
>  
> I couldn't find any hint about xfree beeing exported in the 5.0
> docuementation (rlman.pdf shipped with the readline 5 package on gnuwin32),
> and there is not xfree symbol in the readline include header files (shipped
> with the readline 5 package on gnuwin32)

You can still use it.

>> Beginning with readline-6.0, there is also an rl_free function should you
> want to use it.
>  
> Thx, i am happy to hear that this is fixed. Unfortunateley the gnuwin32
> didn't update their readline versions to that version, and compiling
> readline 6.0 with msvc didn't work eigher, because i get errors about
> undefined struct 'dirent' in complete.c (and the msvc compiler crashes
> afterwards, but this is sureley not your fault, maybe i should make a
> bugreport at microsoft.) i don't know whether there are more issues. Do you
> know of another source to get 6.0 or later readline binaries on windows?

Sorry, I don't really pay much attention to the Windows environment.  I
become aware of things like this when people tell me.

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