[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#445565: [abuyoav at gmail.com: Bug#445565: Header glplib.h missing from package libglpk-dev, version 4.22-1]

[Rafael Laboissiere]

package libglpk-dev
tags 445565 upstream confirmed
thanks

* Andrew Makhorin <mao at gnu.org> [2007-10-15 18:12]:

> Currently lib_free_env is not api routine, however, if necessary, one
> could call it as _glp_lib_free_env that does not require glplib.h to
> be included in the source code.

Yes, one can, in principle, call any function present in libgplk.so
(remember our previous discussion about _glp_lib_xprintf).  However, I do
not think we should encourage users to call non-API, inernal routines from
their programs.

> All glpk routines always free all allocated memory, so if the
> application program has deleted all problem objects, only one memory
> block not longer than 1K remains unallocated. 

This is probably the problem meant by the bug reporter.

> If you think that in some cases this would be useful, I could make
> lib_free_env available on api level.

Yes, I think such a cleanup routine will be useful in the API, insuring that
no allocated blocks are left behind.

Thanks,

-- 
Rafael