Re: Paranthesis problem in memory documentation

David King <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:53:42 +0000

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Hi Mohan

On 2014-11-12 17:28, Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hello,
>https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Memory-Allocation.htmlweb page has the following in the Description"
>It's important to match g_malloc() (and wrappers such as g_new()) withg_free(), g_slice_alloc() and wrappers such as g_slice_new()) withg_slice_free(), plain malloc() with free(), and (if you're using C++)new with delete and new[] with delete[]. Otherwise bad things can happen,since these allocators may use different memory pools (and new/delete callconstructors and destructors). See also g_mem_set_vtable()."
>Looks like
>the "(" before and wrappers, 
>and
>")" after as g_slice_new()
>needs to be removed. g_malloc() does not go well with g_slice_free(), please check.

Thanks for the report. In fact, an opening parenthesis is missing, and I 
fixed that in glib master:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?id=61cecd5a68743542baf685b47e8a4a5f4a98d205

The fix will be in the next unstable release.

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