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2007-06-23  Emmanuele Bassi  <ebassi@gnome.org>

	* glib/tmpl/memory.sgml: Add a clarification about pairing the
	memory allocation and free functions, and not mix system's
	malloc/free with the corresponding GLib ones. (#450216, Hubert
	Figuiere)

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2007-06-23 Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@gnome.org>
* glib/tmpl/memory.sgml: Add a clarification about pairing the
memory allocation and free functions, and not mix system's
malloc/free with the corresponding GLib ones. (#450216, Hubert
Figuiere)
2007-06-18 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
* === Released 2.13.5 ===

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<para>
These functions provide support for allocating and freeing memory.
</para>
<note>
<para>
If any call to allocate memory fails, the application is terminated.
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</para>
</note>
<note>
<para>
It's important to match g_malloc() with g_free(), plain malloc() with free(),
and (if you're using C++) new with delete and new[] with delete[]. Otherwise
bad things can happen, since these allocators may use different memory
pools (and new/delete call constructors and destructors). See also
g_mem_set_vtable().
</para>
</note>
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<para>