[Firebird-devel] Is 'RETURNS PARAMETER N' deprecated in FB 1.5?

[Raymond K. <pr...@ch...>]

(I use both IB and FB)

I used the 'RETURNS PARAMETER N' for declaring UDFs and was instructed to not use it, but
to use malloc(). Then I was instructed to use ib_util_malloc() or my UDF will cause
InterBase  to go boom in the night.

This is driving my crazy.

Is there a definative answer to using strings in UDFs that are thread-safe and not
deprecated?

That is, is 'RETURNS PARAMETER N' deprecated or is it the correct technique to use in
Firebird 1.5 and beyond?
-- 
Raymond Kennington
Programming Solutions
W2W Team B