Heads-Up: Beware of xmlCleanupParser() when your package links against libxml2
Michael Cronenworth
mike at cchtml.com
Wed Jan 13 21:57:46 UTC 2010
Daniel Veillard wrote:
> The problem is that you can perfectly have application not relying on
> libxml2 outside of their own code use libxml2 at different phases,
> for example when parsing input, and when generating result, not using
> the library in the meantime and calling xmlCleanupParser() twice (or
> more) in a perfectly legal way.
>
Can the function call be renamed?
xmlCleanupLibrary() ?
This might lower the chance of it being implemented multiple times.
Heck, allocate 1 bit-field for a check on the function call to determine
if it has already been run or not...
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