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update some comments pointing out these buffers need not be freed 

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Ronnie Sahlberg 2005-08-17 20:45:18 +00:00
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@ -23,6 +23,13 @@
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*/
/* The buffers returned by these functions are all allocated with a
* packet lifetime and does not have have to be freed.
* However, take into account that when the packet dissection
* completes, these buffers will be automatically reclaimed/freed.
* If you need the buffer to remain for a longer scope than packet lifetime
* you must copy the content to an se_alloc() buffer.
*/
#ifndef __RESOLV_H__
#define __RESOLV_H__
@ -88,10 +95,6 @@ extern gchar *get_sctp_port(guint port);
/* - if the address is of any other type, the result of address_to_str on the argument, */
/* which should be a string representation for the answer -e.g. "10.10.10.10" for IPv4 */
/* address 10.10.10.10 */
/* take into account that get_addr_name might eventually call address_to_str and return */
/* its result; this means that the returned pointer is only guaranteed to point to a valid */
/* string immediately after return, because address_to_str overwrites its previous results */
/* and it must not be g_free'd */
const gchar *get_addr_name(address *addr);