Re: g_list_append() knows how to duplicate data?

[David Ford <david linux com>]

I said that because I was told that it acted like the gtk clist in copying
data in spite of the very simple g_list structure.

Better documentation for gtk/glib would prevent a lot of this.

-d

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 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
>
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