Re: CList memory management with C++ ...

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

John Schmerge <schmerge@cyber.com> writes:
> When one calls gtk_clist_append(GtkCList * , gchar * text [])
> 
> does the clist performs a deep copy of the data in text, or does it just
> maintain references to the data in the original array?

It makes a copy - your code should be fine, except the array is
nul-terminated:
 
> myClist = gtk_clist_new(1);
> 
> for (std::list<std::string>::iterator i = l.begin; i != l.end(); ++i)
> {
>    char * ptr = i->c_str();  // <- this is the piece that I'm worried about...
> 
>    gtk_clist_append(GTK_CLIST(myClist), &ptr);
> }
> 

do something like:

char *ptr[2] = { NULL, NULL };
ptr[0] = i->c_str ();

Havoc