Re: [gtk-list] Re: newbie g_list_remove prob

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Timothy I. McGinnis wrote:
> Ouch.
> Yes, I assigned the return value back to my list variable.
> Yes, I was thinking it compared contents.  But then I assume a glist can
> contain
> anything, not just strings.
>

Right. The GList doesn't know what those pointers point to, so it can only
compare the pointers. If you want to remove-by-value, you want to manually 
search the list.
 
> So then, I should not be freeing the malloc'ed variables I am appending to
> my glist, correct?  Because the glist is storing only the pointer and if I
> free the malloc'ed variable the pointer will not be valid any longer.
> 

Right, that sounds correct. Just be sure you free the variables when
you're done with them (maybe when you remove them from the list).

Havoc