GtkList problem

[Ajit Krishnan <akrishna julian uwo ca>]

hi,
  i seem to be having a really silly problem with GtkLists.
I've used a fair number of other widgets and don't have problems,
but this one has me baffled...the following piece of code 
segfaults.


GtkWidget *list = NULL;
GList *items = NULL;

items = g_list_append ("item1");
items = g_list_append ("item2");

list = gtk_list_new();
gtk_list_append_items (GTK_LIST(list), items);

and the code segfaults at gtk_list_append_items.
as far as i can tell, it is right since these are the appropriate 
function prototypes from the GTK+ reference material

void gtk_list_append_items (GtkList *list, GList *items);
GtkWidget* gtk_list_new (void);

thanks,
ajit

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Ajit Krishnan
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