[cffi-devel] CFFI malloc free

[Surendra Singhi]

Hello,
 If I have a C function which allocates memory for a C string and returns a
pointer to this memory (return type char *).

Should the return type of this function be :string or :pointer? 

How do I deallocate this memory? Should I use `foreign-string-free' or
`foreign-free'. 

Is there any way this deallocation can be made automatic? Say, something
similar to clisp's `:malloc-free', or should I copy this foreign string as a
lisp string and then free the foreign string. 

Thanks.
 
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