[Gtk-sharp-list] Upcoming problems.

[Rachel Hestilow]

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On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 18:39, Mike Kestner wrote:
> I think the simplest way to deal with it is to treat the return like an
> IntPtr in the DllImport, manually marshal it to a managed string with
> PtrToStringAnsi in the method body, and then dispose the IntPtr returned
> from the native method by pinvoking g_free. In other words, we take the
> memory management out of the JIT's hands.=20
>=20
> Or maybe I'm oversimplifying?

Ah. I see now. I was initially confused about how PtrToString worked. I
figured that since it worked on const strings, it didn't involve a free,
but I wasn't sure if it was performing a copy operation as well. For
some reason I was under the impression it just referred back to the
original string without ever freeing it. Now having checked MSDN, I see
it does, which means we can just free the pointer like you say.

Ok, that's easy enough to do. I should be able to have that ready and
committed tonight.

-- Rachel


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