Re: GObject ref counting

["Samuel Cormier-Iijima" <sciyoshi gmail com>]

In a single threaded app, I don't think it would matter too much.
However, if you're using multiple threads that handle this object,
unless you know exactly what's happening it's probably a good idea. I
could be wrong about this though, can anyone back this up? (at least,
that's what I do with gobjects)

Samuel

On 12/27/06, Philip Kovacs <kovacsp3 comcast net> wrote:
> Is it good practice always to ref count GObject's passed into functions --
> even if you know for certain that the primary reference is in your control,
> i.e. the first reference cannot be unref'd by surprise?
>
> For large, complex objects with many api's, most of which are private,
> I find that all this reference counting appears to be useless since I
> have the creation reference safely in my control.
>
> In other words:
>
> void foo (GObject *obj)
> {
>    g_object_ref (obj);   <-- redundant?
>
>    /* do something */
>
>    g_object_unef (obj);  <-- redundant?
> }
>
> int my_private_function ()
> {
>    GObject *obj = create_my_object (...);
>
>    foo (obj);
>
>    g_object_unref (obj);
> }
>
>
>
>
>
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