Re: quarks

["Martin (OpenGeoMap)" <martin opengeomap org>]

hi:

> Quark strings are static and should not be freed.  You don't free them.  glib
> does not free them either.  When the process dies they are automatically
> freed.  That's all.  Just don't worry about them.
>   
But then i can imaging we can not abuse of that kind of types.


thank you.

> behdad
>
> Martin (OpenGeoMap) wrote:
>   
> > Brian J. Tarricone escribiÃ:
> >     
> > > On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:20:35 -0300 Martin (OpenGeoMap) wrote:
> > >
> > >  
> > >       
> > > > Someone knows like quarks works in glib????.
> > > >
> > > > I can not find the source code, only the header. ItÅ suppose we don
> > > > need free the string inside a static string of a quarks. But how is
> > > > that???. Where is the string saved?.
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > The documentation on quarks should tell you all you need:
> > > http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Quarks.html
> > >
> > > If not, please ask specific questions about specific sections of the
> > > documentation that you don't understand.
> > >   
> > >       
> >      g_quark_from_string ()
> >
> > Here you create a copy of the string. But where is the string saved??.
> > How do you free the string resources?
> >
> > Usually you need use the quark data, but when you need free it??. Do we
> > need free the string with g_free?
> > If was so, then when we need free the string the firt we have to do is
> > use thes method (g_quark_to_string ) to get the string and then
> > free the string.
> >
> >
> >
> > Usually in glib you can see information about what free, but here i can
> > not see it:
> >
> > For example here we can see what we need free:
> >
> > http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-String-Utility-Functions.html#g-strndup
> >
> >
> >
> > , but not in quarks API documentation.
> >
> >     
> > >     -brian
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