Hello,

r> In Helen's excellent tome, she says one must use ib_util_malloc in UDF
r> land.

r> I have been using my own flavor of malloc for years (standard malloc
r> which forces things to 128 byte boundaries due to problems with
r> various OS-s). It works fine in the current firebird 1.5.2 udf land
r> and FREE_IT seems content. However I would like to be sure that I am
r> not violating some secret in the server and that FREE_IT works healthily.

r> Any comments and/or warnings from developers appreciated.
AFAIK, ib_util_malloc calls malloc in turn, and at the time you can
use either former or latter without difficulties.


HTH
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Best regards,
Pavel Menshchikov
http://www.ls-software.com