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From: klee@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Free data from XGetWindowProperty
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Date: 14 Jun 89 20:36:25 GMT
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In article <3174@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, rcb@cccvs1.ncsu.edu (Randy Buckland) writes:
> In the XGetWindowProperty call, you get back a pointer to the property data.
> Should this be freed or not. I can't find anything in the documentation
> that goes either way.

According to Section 4.3 of the Xlib manual (X11R3):

	To free the resulting data, use XFree.

In general, any user data allocated by an Xlib function may be freed
with XFree.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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