Re: Disposing of memory.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:33:21PM +1000, Mark Cox wrote:
> I have created a class which is a subclass of GObject.  I have
> overridden gobject's dispose method with my own and then called the
> gobject's dispose method....which is all working fine.
>
> But after I create the object, then dispose of it, I still get a single
> memory leak caused by the created object. When I put g_free(theObject)
> at the end of the code the leak goes away.
>
> Is this what I am suppose to do, or should the type system clean it up
> for me without calling g_free.

You probably want to be using _unref() and override finalize() instead 
of using dispose().

Havoc