Re: Memory question

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, David Rosal wrote:

> 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?

Yes, since the allocated string will not be freed by 
gtk_entry_set_text().

gchar *text = g_strdup_printf("banana %d", i);
gtk_entry_set_text(GTK_ENTRY(entry), text);
g_free(text);

Allin Cottrell