[slang-users] Do I have to free MMT objects which are accessed from an array?

[Doug Burke]

On Jul 13, 2005, at 12:08 PM, John E. Davis wrote:

> Doug Burke <dburke at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>   (void) SLang_pop_array_of_type (&at, my_type);
>>
>>   /* access the first element */
>>   dims = 0;
>>   (void) SLang_get_array_element (at, &zero, &mmt);
>>
>> I can then handle mmt as I want. The question I have is do I need to
>> call
>> SLang_free_mmt() on mmt once I've finished using it?
>
> Yes, you have to free both the mmt and the array when you are finished.
>
> --John
>

Thanks, it wasn't clear to me whether SLang_get_array_element was 
increasing the reference count of the mmt.

Doug