why no gtk_tree_iter_new()?

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

I notice that functions such as gtk_tree_store_new() take pointers to
allocated, but unset, GtkTreeIters, so in gtk-demo/main.c you have to do
this:

GtkTreeIter iter;
...
gtk_tree_store_append (GTK_TREE_STORE (model), &iter, NULL);


Isn't there a risk that someone could end up calling
gtk_tree_iter_free() on this. And if there is a gtk_tree_iter(),
shouldn't there be a matching gtk_tree_iter_new(), which could also zero
the struct memory to avoid undefined behaviour.

This wouldn't break the API, but would add a function to it. May I?

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