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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: When to XmStringFree()?
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.023429.15923@alphalpha.com>
Date: 25 Oct 90 02:34:29 GMT
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In article <890048@hpfcdq.HP.COM> brown@hpfcdq.HP.COM (John Brown) writes:
>Here's a Motif 1.0 question . . .
>
>I'm a bit confused about when it is appropriate to perform an XmStringFree()
That's okay, so is Motif 1.0.  It's much more consistant (and documented)
in 1.1.

>an XmList widget.  I'm currently doing all the XmStringFree() calls I think
>are appropriate, but my application data size still grows whenever I do the
>following:
In Motif 1.0 your application data size will always grow.  1.0 leaked
like a sieve.  There's not much you can do about it other than get 1.1.

BTW.  This was probably better asked to comp.windows.x.motif.
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