Re: memory leak when destroying widgets

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:50 -0400, Dave Foster wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Jacques Le Normand <rathereasy gmail com>wrote:
> 
> >
> >    gtk_container_remove(GTK_CONTAINER(vbox),child);
> >
> 
> Most likely I am wrong on this, but you solely do a container remove, and
> not a delete/free etc on something that was created with entry_new().  I'm
> fairly certain that removing from a container does not free the the object,
> and you are therefore leaking 400 pointers to entry boxes.

No, GTK+ really does do an unref when you remove something from a
container. We fix/hide this weirdness in gtkmm.

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