Re: GHashTable ref counting

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Murray Cumming wrote:

> > 3) implement hash table reference counting in GLib natively, also allowing
> >     the use of hash tables as boxed types.
>
> If this would only tend to be used internally, meaning that the API can be
> a bit ugly, maybe you can implement some type of C reference-counting
> smartpointer, so you can reference-count any boxed type.

i don't see a suitable solution for this.
note that moving reference counting into the hast table itself is
vital to allow the user to still use the g_hash_table_*() API with
the pointer returned by the boxed API.

but i'm of course be interested in hearing any clever new ideas regarding
smart pointer approaches in C or with libgobject. ;)

> Murray Cumming
> murrayc murrayc com
> www.murrayc.com
> www.openismus.com

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