Working on a project and encountered g_key_file for the first time. I have a question with the API, what happens to strings returned by g_key_file_get_string? Are they freed when you free the key_file? Are they just magically garbage collected? Must they be freed manually? What got me asking this is the verbiage of the API:
g_key_file_get_string() "Returns: a newly allocated string or NULL if the specified key cannot be found" While g_strndup() says" "Returns: a newly-allocated buffer containing the first n bytes of str, nul-terminated" g_strndup() description explicitly says that the return value should be freed when no longer needed, but g_key_file_get_string() says no such thing. I was unable to find any write-up describing the difference between a "string" or a "buffer" in the sense of the return value of either of those two functions. Both returns are of type gchar *. Thanks for any clarification you can provide. -Kris
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