Re: Does g_key_file_free() free pointers from g_key_file_get_string()?

[Tadej Borovšak <tadeboro gmail com>]

Hello.

> Since the documentation says it's a newly allocated string, I have
> always freed the string when I no longer need it. This hasn't produced
> any ill effects so far. Usually, valgrind will catch problems related
> to freeing pointers to non-heap memory.

Another indicator that returned value should be freed is lack of const
modifier on return value.

If API docs state:

const char * get_something ()     -> do not free result
      char * get_another_thing () -> free result

Cheers,
Tadej

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