Re: gtk+-1.2.10 has memory leak?

[dhaude physnet uni-hamburg de]

> I was assigned to do a work to fix the bugs of gtk+-1.2.10. They say it
> has a problem of memory leak. If some functions(such as gtk_type_class_init)
> is called by me, it will occupy memory and don't free them and the
> memory can be used will become less and less. Will this really happen?
> Must I do this fix work?

Two things

1) I think gtk+-1.2.x is way outdated and not supported any
more. If that's the case I wouldn't waste any time trying to fix
it.

2) How was the alleged memory leak detected? 

--Daniel