Re: why no gtk_tree_iter_new()?

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 12:36, Murray Cumming wrote:
> I notice that functions such as gtk_tree_store_new()
s/gtk_tree_store_new/gtk_tree_store_append/
> 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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