Function

GObjectTypeValueFreeFunc

since: 2.78

Declaration

void
(* GTypeValueFreeFunc) (
  GValue* value
)

Description [src]

Frees any old contents that might be left in the value->data array of the given value.

No resources may remain allocated through the GValue contents after this function returns. E.g. for our above string type:

// only free strings without a specific flag for static storage
if (!(value->data[1].v_uint & G_VALUE_NOCOPY_CONTENTS))
  g_free (value->data[0].v_pointer);

Available since: 2.78

Parameters

value

Type: GValue

The value to free.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.