Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Freeing memory of se_alloc'ated object

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 1, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Max wrote:

> But am I the only guy who finds this ugly?

No.

> In this situation  it would
> be perfect if se_alloc() engine could call a callback with a user
> supplied argument before it starts to deallocate anything.

The init mechanism was created before the ephemeral memory stuff even existed, and has never been updated.

Some better mechanism, such as the one you suggest, would probably be a good idea.