Function

GLibByteArrayfree

Declaration

guint8*
g_byte_array_free (
  GByteArray* array,
  gboolean free_segment
)

Description

Frees the memory allocated by the GByteArray. If free_segment is TRUE it frees the actual byte data. If the reference count of array is greater than one, the GByteArray wrapper is preserved but the size of array will be set to zero.

Parameters

array

Type: An array of guint8

A GByteArray.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

free_segment

Type: gboolean

If TRUE the actual byte data is freed as well.

Return value

Type: guint8*

The element data if free_segment is FALSE, otherwise NULL. The element data should be freed using g_free().

The data is owned by the called function.