Re: Re: Why there's still ONE element left after g_slist_free () ?

[american communist party gmail com]

You should quote the object of the comment ENTIRELY before commenting, shouldn't you? The actual comment by PenT does state as much:
"to assign NULL to it after g_slist_free ()..."

AFTER g_slist_free. I don't see that I was mutually exclusive in my reply.

On May 14, 2009 11:51am, Chris Moller <moller mollerware com> wrote:
> american communist party gmail com wrote:
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> > Its old hat to C programmers that you set any object to NULL when
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> > you're done with it, which returns the memory used to the heap.
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> That's specifically /not/ true in C:  You have to explicitly free
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> allocated space--setting a pointer to null doesn't automatically do the
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> freeing and, in fact, can simply lose the pointer making it impossible
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> to subsequently free the space.  Sometimes it's useful to set the
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> pointer to null /after/ you free the space just as a flag to yourself
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> that you've freed it.
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> > That's not necessary with languages that have garbage collection like
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> > Java, Python, etc.
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> > On May 13, 2009 3:56am, PenT pentie gmail com> wrote:
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> > > Thanks to Yeti, tml and Pfeiffer, I finally realized what happend to
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> > the GSList.
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> > > May be I'm spoiled by Python, Java that I had the strange
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> > SHOULD-BE-NULL thought, now I know if I need to reuse the GSList*
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> > variable,  the first thing is to assign NULL to it after g_slist_free
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> > (),  also surprised g_slist_length() didn't gave a segmentation fault
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> > to me, aha.
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