Changeset 1677 for trunk/doc/pslib/psLibSDRS.tex

Timestamp:

Sep 1, 2004, 2:49:21 PM (22 years ago)

Author:

Paul Price

Message:

Removed the infamous "psFree will produce an error if the refCounter
is not 1".

File:

• trunk/doc/pslib/psLibSDRS.tex (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/doc/pslib/psLibSDRS.tex

@@ -1 @@
-%%% $Id: psLibSDRS.tex,v 1.102 2004-09-02 00:40:37 price Exp $
+%%% $Id: psLibSDRS.tex,v 1.103 2004-09-02 00:49:21 price Exp $
 \documentclass[panstarrs,spec]{panstarrs}
 
@@ -599 +599 @@
 management routines respect the use of the \code{refCounter} field:
 \code{psFree} will not free a block for which \code{refCounter} is not
-1, and \code{psAlloc} will initialize the field to 1.  \code{psFree}
-must generate an error if \code{refCounter} is not 1.  However, they
-do not (and cannot practically) enforce the use of the counters; this
-is a requirement of external APIs which intend to use the feature.
+1, but shall decrement the \code{refCounter}, and \code{psAlloc} will
+initialize the field to 1.  However, these functions do not (and
+cannot practically) enforce the use of the counters; this is a
+requirement of external APIs which intend to use the feature.
 
 Several APIs are provided to manage the reference counters.  These