Re: where to use a g_free ?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Cevat Ustun <ustun glue umd edu> writes:
> I am slightly confused by some (er, at least one) of the examples I've
> seen in the
> archives: they seem to suggest that a structure defined within a
> function
> (so as to be able to pass  more than one widget to a callback for
> example)
> needs to give up its memory through a  g_free statement at the end of
> the _function_  itself .
> This confuses me because regardless of whether the callback is called or
> not,
> one ends up freeing the memory anyway (thereby causing a crash) when the
> program
> execution reaches the end of the function.  Perhaps an alternative is to
> write another
> _callback_ so that g_free is called before the dialog in question
> destroys itself but
> introducing another callback doesn't seem like a very elegant
> solution...

You might look at gtk_signal_connect_full(), which lets you pass in
a free function for the callback data.

Havoc