[Xcb] to free or not to free

Jamey Sharp jamey at minilop.net
Tue Dec 6 05:56:52 PST 2005


On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:22:27AM +0100, Vincent Torri wrote:
> just before I return forminfo_iter.data, I free rep. Usually, the data is
> in the chunk of memory of rep. So I guess that my code above is wrong. Am
> I right ? Should I do a memcpy ?

You're right that the code is wrong since forminfo_iter.data is a
pointer into rep, and yes, you should do a memcpy. I'm growing to truly
hate languages without garbage collection.

--Jamey
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