Re: g_list_append() knows how to duplicate data?

[learfox furry ao net]

> >    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. ;-)

As I suspected.

Thanks for yer reply, I'll forward this e-mail to them.


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