[SDL] ot - memory leaks

[Jacek Poplawski]

On 8/3/07, neil at cloudsprinter.com <neil at cloudsprinter.com> wrote:
>
> ok, i get this, one thing i'm not too sure about is, in some of my
> fucntions i
> create surfaces for the game as and when needed, for this the function
> uses 5
> surfaces which i SDL_Surface *surface at the start of the function, i
> then free
> 4 of these but one needs to be returned, what happens then? i cant free
> the
> surface before it returns otherwise it will return nothing. can i free
> it after
> i've returned it? i thought the return was the end of the function...


You should destroy the surface when you stop using it.
It can be end of the program if you can't find better place.
IMHO it's better to use C++ and allocate SDL_Surface in constructors and
destroy it in destructors.

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