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Re: Cleaning up inherited object classes [message #37172 is a reply to message #37171]

Wed, 03 December 2003 18:38

marc schellens[1]
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Registered: January 2000

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Well another way would be to consider it already
when writing your program.
I always have the cleanup method just before the
XX__define procedure. So for every inheritance I immediately add
the superclass cleanup call and for every pointer the ptr_free (object,
obj_destroy) function.

marc

David Fanning wrote:
> Ben Tupper writes:
>
>
>> I would defer to other's on the question if a subclass MUST have its own
>> CLEANUP method. I haven't tried it, but I'm not sure that it does
>> (unless it has its own pointers and objects to cleanup.)
>
>
> I'll tell you this, I have spent an *untold* number
> of hours chasing down memory leaks only to find that
> I forget to call a superclass CLEANUP method from my
> object's CLEANUP method! I've done it so often this
> is the *FIRST* thing I look for when I'm chasing
> memory leaks now.
>
> Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>

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		Re: Cleaning up inherited object classes By: David Fanning on Wed, 03 December 2003 20:15
		Re: Cleaning up inherited object classes By: marc schellens[1] on Wed, 03 December 2003 18:38
		Re: Cleaning up inherited object classes By: David Fanning on Wed, 03 December 2003 12:28
		Re: Cleaning up inherited object classes By: btt on Wed, 03 December 2003 12:17

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