Re: testing that an object really has been destroyed in unittests

[Stefan Kost <kost imn htwk-leipzig de>]

Hi Tristan,

uhm, should have switched on my brain - the weak_ref is a cool idea!

Stefan

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:22:52 +0200, Stefan Kost
> <kost imn htwk-leipzig de> wrote:
>
> > hi hi,
> >
> > has anyone an idea how I can verify that after a
> >  g_object_unref(myobj);
> > the object has been destroyed.
>
> [...]
>
>     You can use `g_object_weak_ref ()' to register a callback to be called
> when the object is finalized.
>
> You can not check if an object has been finalized after the fact for
> the same reasons you can not check if a memory region has been
> freed after freeing it.
>
> Cheers,
>                                                           -Tristan

-- 
      \|/            Stefan Kost
     <@ @>           private            business
+-oOO-(_)-OOo------------------------------------------------------ - - -  -   -
|       __  Address  Simildenstr. 5     HTWK Leipzig, Fb IMN, Postfach 301166
|      ///           04277 Leipzig      04251 Leipzig
| __  ///            Germany            Germany
| \\\///    Phone    +49341 2253538     +49341 30766101
|  \__/     EMail    st_kost_at_gmx.net kost_at_imn.htwk-leipzig.de
|           WWW      www.sonicpulse.de  www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~kost/about.html
===-=-=--=---=---------------------------------- - - -  -    -