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

[Daniel Lacroix <dlacroix erasme org>]

Le mer 23/10/2002 à 11:44, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit :
> 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?

Don't know any but test script with loop on the function will show the
problem if you are looking at the memory allocation. But, this is not a
solution for automatic test.

> -- 
> Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Daniel Lacroix