Re: g_list_append() knows how to duplicate data?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

learfox furry ao net writes:
>    I was just told that g_list_append() takes the second argument and
> duplicates it before setting it to the list.
>
> Is this true?

No.

> If so how does it know what size the given data is?

It couldn't possibly, as you might expect.

>    Also I was told that g_list_free() deallocates each data pointer on
> each linked item on the glist, is that true and if so does it know if it
> should be deallocated or not or if it has allocated substructures?

Same deal. Someone is smoking some crackpipe. Ask them to share. ;-)

Havoc