Memory question

[David Rosal <david rosal upf edu>]

Hello.

I know this is a general C programming issue, but...

It is a memory leak to call g_strdup() as argument to other function?

For example, if I do this:

gtk_entry_set_text(GTK_ENTRY(entry), g_strdup("banana");

Am I leaking memory?

AFAIK, the above code makes glib (via libc):
1) ask the kernel for a chunk of memory.
2) copy "banana" in that chunk.
3) pass the address of the chunk to the function gtk_entry_set_text().
But that address is lost, since we do not assign it to any pointer variable.
My question is: Is that memory chunk free'd before the program exits?

Thanks.


~david