Re: gtk2-perl / a script to help converting basic functions

[Guillaume Cottenceau <gc mandrakesoft com>]

Daniel Lacroix <dlacroix erasme org> writes:

> > Which is correct, and pretty helpful :).
>
> I don't share to point of view. The gtkperl_text_buffer_get_text
> function is not correct. It will create a memory leak in Gtk2-Perl. The
> gtk_text_buffer_get_text function like many other is returning an
> allocated string which must be freed with g_free when we no more need
> it. This is often the case for function which return char *.
>
> I think that we must copy the string in a perl string and g_free the
> return value before exiting the function. I have not the solution
> ("code") for now but you must be aware of that I try to correct this.

I see - while this is not strictly a problem from the script,
the rest of the code probably containing more occurence of the
like.

Do we have an helpful tool to efficiently/easily check for memory
leaks?


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