Re: please excuse very basic questions: gchar and g_free()

[Matt Jarjoura <jarjoura gmail com>]

Yes, but the size of bytes you need is computed by ....

sizeof (type) * total

so I you needed 10 char array... you wouldn't want to assume that a
char is 2 bytes since different systems use different byte sizes...

so safely you would run    malloc( sizeof(char) * 10 )

calloc takes two parameters, and multiplies them for you automatically. 

calloc ( sizeof(char) , 10)... it will return a pointer to a block of
memory that has been zeroed out.

Hope this answers your questions.


On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:13:18 +0100 (CET), Jan-Marek Glogowski
<glogow fbihome de> wrote:
> Hi
>
> <snip a lot of questions about dynamic memory and gchar>
>
> http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node11.html#SECTION001100000000000000000
>
> #define g_new(struct_type, n_structs)           \
>     ((struct_type *) g_malloc (((gsize) sizeof (struct_type)) * ((gsize)
> (n_structs))))
>
> malloc and free are about allocation a number of bytes - they don't care
> about types.
>
> HTH
>
> Jan-Marek
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