Re: freeing gslist data ?

[Ali Akcaagac <aliakc web de>]

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 00:04, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> Hi,
> suppose that i have a GSList *foo and a gchar *bar
> and i've used something like this:
> foo = g_slist_append(foo, g_strdup(bar));
> now when i free the list, Do i have to manually iterate over the list 
> and free the ->data ?
> i've browsed the code but i didn't understand well the gallocator things

yes you do, g_strdup returns a new string which requires to be free'd
after usage

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-String-Utility-Functions.html#g-strdup

as you can reed here. when you free the list then you only remove
elements from your linked list but the allocated strings are still
showing up somewhere in memory. thus it's really required to iterate
through the list, g_free all the ->data and then remove the list.