Re: [gmime-devel] GObject unref hell

[Paul J Stevens <paul nfg nl>]

On 06-11-13 10:21, Mario Theodoridis wrote:

> 2. Is there a way to safely unref a GObject, i.e. unref it if it needs
> to be? This is mainly because it is not always clear to me when and when
> not due to issues like the current.


Bit late to the game here, but what helped me a *lot* was tracking
references using an external tool:

http://git.dbmail.eu/paul/gobject-list/

which I forked from

http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/cassidy/gobject-list.git/

saved my day. A bit like valgrind for object references.



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