Hello,

We have found an issue with string handling in mama while looking at our payload implementation of mamaMsg_toString.
According to the documentation the string should be freed by the caller using mamaMsg_freeString() but this function is not implemented.

See p. 5.16.4.121 in the OpenMAMA C API Reference Manual.
5.16.4.121 MAMAExpDLL const char mamaMsg_toString (const mamaMsg msg)
Return a const char representation the message.
Must call mamaMsg_freeString() to free memory allocated for string.
Parameters:
msg The message.
Returns:
A string representation of the message.

Currently the function mamaMsg_freeString is empty.

See the code in msg.c:

void
mamaMsg_freeString (const mamaMsg msg, const char* msgString)
{

}

Can someone explain what is intended here? Is the payload supposed to implement its own freeString called through mamaMsg_freeString?
Has anyone else tried to address this problem, if so, how?

Regards,
Guy - Tick42