Re: To leak or seg to fault ?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Tomasz Wegrzanowski <taw users sourceforge net> writes:
> 1. Should I free() all strings returned from gtk_* methods or not ?

It's about 50/50, and you should use g_free() not free(). You have to
read docs or source for each function.

In GTK 2 the strings that should not be freed have const on
them. (By default anyway.)

> 2. Should I strdup() all strings passed to gtk_* methods or not ?
>    If yes, should I strdup() r/o ones too ?

No, we generally don't have methods that require this.

Havoc