Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:26:04 +0100
To: Olivier Andrieu <oandrieu at nerim.net>
Cc: lablgtk at kaba.or.jp
Subject: Re: Memory handling bug: cannot access fields in a combo box belonging to a dialog which has been destroyed
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From: Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:58:05PM +0200, Olivier Andrieu wrote:
> But the (caml) program _doesn't_ hold a reference on the entry until
> you've called combo#entry.
[...]

I understand your explanation, but I still think it's a bug! OCaml is
supposed to shield me from the sorts of things that C programmers
worry about.

Rich.

(It could, of course, be documented in the memory handling section of
the README file ...)

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