Re: Memory ownership from pango_context_load_font(..)

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 05/11/2009 02:13 AM, Martin Sevior wrote:
> HI Folks,
>               I'm having trouble getting to the bottom of either a
> crash on exit or a memory leak issue in abiword.
>
> I think my problem stems from the function
>
> PangoFont * pF = pango_context_load_font( (PangoContext *context,
>                                                           const
> PangoFontDescription *desc);
>
>
> Which returns a pointer to a PangoFont struct.
>
> Who owns pF? Do I have to keep track of it and do a g_object_unref(pF)
> when I'm finished with it?

Yes, load_font gives you a reference that you need to free.

behdad

> Or will it freed when I do a g_object_unref( context)? Or is it freed
> upon a different action altogether?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Martin Sevior