Hello,

I tried out JNA with one of our DLLs and it worked pretty well. Thanks for the
good work. However, I was wondering under which conditions JNA objects like Structure or
primitive arrays take ownership of a block of native memory and consequently
free that block of memory when GCed.

I could find this mail thread in the archives : <https://jna.dev.java.net/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=users&msgNo=1777>
https://jna.dev.java.net/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=users&msgNo=1777

That still does not fully answer my questions: - Does JNA free memory returned by functions (e.g. MyStruct* getNewStruct() )? - How does it work with Struct* arguments passed into a Callback? Does JNA
assume that this memory will be freed by the caller?

- How are the assumptions in general about who is responsible for freeing which
memory?

With best regards, Wolfgang Buckel

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