On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 01:32:34PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 02:27:37PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 03:08:06PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > > > The annotation is not supposed to be directly meant for humans, thats > > > why gtk-doc needs to do a better job. i-e the info is already there, > > > just needs translation. > > > > Yep, I don't know if gtk-doc uses the introspection information at all > > though (to be able to tell which functions should be used to free the > > container and which function should be used to free its content). In the > > mean time, I'd feel more comfortable if we explicitly say what should be > > done to free the returned data since that is one of the thing that I miss > > the most when using most C APIs > > If I look at the docs for GTK, I see GTK-DOC is including details of > the annotations: > > eg > > > http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window-get-default-icon-list > > "Returns: copy of default icon list. [element-type GdkPixbuf][transfer > container]"
Forgot to mention that gtk+ also has a note saying how to free the return value, from your link: "The list is a copy and should be freed with g_list_free(), but the pixbufs in the list have not had their reference count incremented. " Christophe
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