Re: GSEAL branch merge

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Christian Persch wrote:

> Hi;
>
> what's the purpose of sealing the "GtkFooPrivate *priv" members of
> GtkFoo structs? Those are opaque pointers that code outside of gtk
> cannot access anyway. And in gtk+ itself using obj->priv is just a
> pointer deref while using G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_PRIVATE which you replaced
> it with is more costly than that.

Inside Gtk+ it doesn't make a difference, and code that copied
structure definitions from gtk's .c files to access ->priv pointer
internals anyways can now be automatically spotted with -DGSEAL_ENABLE.

> 	Christian

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