Re: dispose and finalize

[Martin Kalbfuß <ma kalbfuss web de>]

OK Thanks,

So if I have a Garray member, I call g_array_unref in finalize, because
it isn't a child of GObject. Correct?

Am Mittwoch, den 20.01.2010, 17:24 +0100 schrieb Holger Berndt:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:56:18 +0100 Martin Kalbfuß wrote:
> 
> > what's the difference between dispose and finalize? And which members
> > have to be freed in which of these functions?
> 
> See http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/unstable/gobject-memory.html
> 
> The difference in short:
> 
> dispose:
> - g_object_unref() all GObject member variables
> - function must be safe against being called multiple times
> 
> finalize:
> - free all other (non-GObject) members, close file descriptors etc
> 
> Holger