Yes, this will be a memory leak. You have to free it using g_free() as noted here
Also you have to check for NULL
as gtk_file_chooser_get_filename
could return NULL
on error as well.
Question
My code:
char* fileName;
fileName=g_filename_from_utf8(gtk_file_chooser_get_filename (GTK_FILE_CHOOSER (dialog)),-1,NULL,NULL,NULL);
The string returned from gtk_file_chooser_get_filename() cannot be referenced, so it can't be freed. Is this a memory leak? Should I assign it to an identifier and then free() it instead of passing it directly to g_filename_from_utf8()?
La solution
Yes, this will be a memory leak. You have to free it using g_free() as noted here
Also you have to check for NULL
as gtk_file_chooser_get_filename
could return NULL
on error as well.