Re: When to g_free()

[Andrea Frome <andrea bluemug com>]

How do we tell if we're dealing with a legacy function?  

I have a similar question with gtk_file_selection_get_filename().  It 
appears that it's returning a pointer from an internal structure
that is freed when the file selection widget is destroyed, but I'm
not positive.

Thanks,
ALf



On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 03:23:07PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Matthew <matthew@mattshouse.com> writes:
> > Should I be g_free()ing my gtk_editable_get_chars()?  Is there a rule of thumb
> > to follow that will make it easier to figure out what to free and what doesn't
> > need to be freed?
> > 
> 
> Returned strings need to be freed, except for legacy functions that
> don't follow the convention.
> 
> Havoc
> 
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