Re: GSList* memory management.

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 13:08 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> I'd like to improve the documentation for functions that return GSLists
> and GList*. The documentation needs to specify how they should be freed:
> - with just g_slist_free() - a shallow delete.
> or
> - with a g_free() (or appropriate) on each item, and then a
> g_slist_free() - a deep delete.

> For instance, which should it be for these functions?
> gconf_client_all_dirs()

 * returns a list of allocated strings
 * requires a deep free: g_slist_foreach (dirs, (GFunc) g_free, NULL);

> gconf_client_all_entries()

 * returns a list of referenced GConfEntry objects
 * requires a deep free: g_slist_foreach (entries, (GFunc) gconf_entry_unref, NULL);

> gconf_client_get_list()

 * exactly lkke the other getters, this returns a list of copies of the
   actual value stored inside the GConf database
 * requires a deep free depending on the type contained inside the list;
   the conversion is indeed quite weird: ints and booleans are simply
   put inside the returnes list using GINT_TO_POINTER(), but doubles
   are allocated, like are schemas and strings.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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