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Subject:    Re: dispose and finalize
From:       Artur Galyamov <artur-pub () yandex ! ru>
Date:       2010-01-20 17:09:30
Message-ID: 3541264007370 () webmail30 ! yandex ! ru
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20.01.10, 17:56, "Martin Kalbfuß" <ma.kalbfuss@web.de>:

> Hi,
> what's the difference between dispose and finalize? And which members
> have to be freed in which of these functions?
> Thanks

In dispose you should drop all references to other GObjects.
In finalize you free other data (char *, GArray *, etc.)

"dispose" can be invoked more than one time before "finalize".
See also [1], specifically last section.

[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/stable/gobject-memory.html

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Artur
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