Function

GLibByteArraysteal

since: 2.64

Declaration 

guint8*
g_byte_array_steal (
  GByteArray* array,
  gsize* len
)

Description

Frees the data in the array and resets the size to zero, while the underlying array is preserved for use elsewhere and returned to the caller.

Available since: 2.64

Parameters

array

Type: An array of guint8

A GByteArray.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
len

Type: gsize*

Pointer to retrieve the number of elements of the original array.

The argument will be set by the function.
The argument can be NULL.

Return value

Type: guint8*

The element data, which should be freed using g_free().

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.