Re: Memory Leak with pango_layout_new()

[David Malcolm <dmalcolm redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 17:11 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 12:31 -0700, martin dempsey wrote:
> > I've got a major memory leak in an applicaton and I tracked it down to the 
> > following: if I create a PangoLayout with pango_layout_new() and then use 
> > pango_layout_set_text(), I get a memory leak even when I try to free the 
> > memory with g_object_unref(). However, if I replace those function calls with 
> > a call to gtk_widget_create_pango_layout(), there is no memory leak. The 
> > memory leak is very obvious: on the real app, I'm losing almost 3 Megabytes 
> > per hour. "memprof" also very clearly shows the leak. I'm using Debian 
> > "sarge" and with the standard versions of the gtk development packages for 
> > that OS. I am pretty new with gtk programming. Am I doing something simple 
> > wrong?
>
> IIRC, PangoLayouts aren't GObjects; you have to use a different function
> to free them.  The call to g_object_unref is failing a type assertion,
> spitting a warning out, and doing nothing, hence the leak.

Hmmm... sorry, I remembered incorrectly on this; I just doublechecked
and they are GObjects...