G_key_file_get_integer_list(), transfer container?

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I am trying to fix a bug in the Nim language bindings, see https://github.com/StefanSalewski/gintro/issues/98

And I am wondering about

https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Key-value-file-parser.html#g-key-file-get-integer-list

Result is marked as [transfer container]

Makes that sense for a gint array result? Should it not be transfer-full?

Not a big issue, but as far as I can see this function is the only one with “transfer container” for a int-array result. Is [transfer container] not more directed to GList and similar complixated types?

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In case of fundamental types and anything that doesn’t need freeing per item, transfer full and transfer container are equivalent.

For an array of GObject* (i.e. GObject**), for example, the two would be different and you would have to unref() each item in case of transfer full in addition to freeing the array itself via g_free() in both cases.

I agree that transfer container is a bit strange in this specific situation with plain integers. It’s the same for many other similar functions on GKeyFile though.

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