On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 07:50 +0100, Stefan Kost wrote:
> hi all,
>
> another question for the gobject tutorial:
>
> Should gobject classes always chain up to the parent clases in
> dispose
> finalize
> <any other>
>
> For objects that directly inherrit from gobject imho it make no difference, but
> e.g. for object that derive from gtk-widgets it is important to chain up.
>
> Stefan
The dispose and finalize methods (if overridden) must chain up, or
you'll leak the memory allocated by GObject (the instance's "struct
_GObject" and any object data that's been set). Otherwise it depends on
the method and class (e.g. in GObject, get/set_property must not,
constructor must, etc.).
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