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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: 20 Jun 89 16:55:27 GMT
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In article <216500009@s.cs.uiuc.edu>, carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> Also, on a related topic, XLoadQueryFont() returns a structure that
> should be freed. Can I use XFree on it? The manual (11.3) says to use
> XFreeFontInfo(),

No, the manual says "To unload the font and free the storage used by
the font structure that was allocated by XQueryFont or XLoadQueryFont,
use XFreeFont."  XFree frees memory on only the client (Xlib) side, but
you don't want to do that since a font is allocated in both the client
and the server.  XFreeFontInfo frees an information array generated by
XListFontsWithInfo.
 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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