Re: Memory question

[David Rosal <david rosal upf edu>]

Allin Cottrell wrote:

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

Is the above code really safe?

You're passing the address of "text" to the function 
gtk_entry_set_text(). Next you g_free() that address, so AFAIK the 
memory manager marks it as free.
Isn't it dangerous? I mean, after g_free() any call that requests for 
memory (g_strdup, g_malloc, ...) can overwrite that memory chunk, 
changing the text in the GtkEntry. Am I right?

Cheers,


~david