If you're using GSlice on a dynamically-sized array, you are using GSlice
wrong. This is not what GSlice was designed for and you will cause
fragmentation.

The case for munmap is better, but again, I'd just store the overall size
of the region, rather than calculating it again.


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 5:57 PM, David Nečas <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:37:08PM -0500, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> > The call for freeing a block of memory is free(void *data);
>
> And the call for freeing a GSlice-allocated block of memory is
>
>     void g_slice_free1(gsize block_size, gpointer mem_block);
>
> And the call for freeing a memory-mapped region is
>
>     int munmap(void *addr, size_t length);
>
> I missed the start of the thread and can't comment on that, but freeing
> memory may require all kinds of knowledge.
>
> Yeti
>
>


-- 
  Jasper
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