Re: atomic reference counting for gmain.c

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 11:43, Sebastian Wilhelmi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the attached patch uses the new g_atomic_int_(inc|dec_and_test)
> functions for atomic reference counting in gmain.c
> GMainLoop and GMainContext are ported over. GSource can't be ported,
> beacuse it uses guint for the reference count (like GMainLoop and
> GMainContext) and is defined in a header file (unlike GMainLoop and
> GMainContext) and we can't change structures in headers (that would give
> us unstable ABI).

I don't understand this ... I thought that the plan was that
g_atomic_int_<blah> would work on ints, precisely so that we
could fix our existing refcounts which are typically guint.

We don't actually support any sizeof(int) != 32 platforms as well, 
so changing guint => guint32 isn't actually ABI breakage,
but....

Regards,
						Owen