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| author | Philip Withnall <philip.withnall@collabora.co.uk> | 2014-12-19 19:02:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Philip Withnall <philip.withnall@collabora.co.uk> | 2015-03-03 18:40:33 +0000 |
| commit | 4aedc85fb35f58b602259d34b94dcebeefa198bc (patch) | |
| tree | 9d532e53ac364f73081cba01ad149aa84b23addb | |
| parent | 18c9a4e17a74b1707b8a17779e13956e151edc27 (diff) | |
| download | glib-4aedc85fb35f58b602259d34b94dcebeefa198bc.tar.gz | |
gobject: Mention g_clear_object() in g_object_unref() documentation
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741779
| -rw-r--r-- | gobject/gobject.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gobject/gobject.c b/gobject/gobject.c index 4a8d0322e..ae6265ea6 100644 --- a/gobject/gobject.c +++ b/gobject/gobject.c @@ -3057,6 +3057,11 @@ g_object_ref (gpointer _object) * * Decreases the reference count of @object. When its reference count * drops to 0, the object is finalized (i.e. its memory is freed). + * + * If the pointer to the #GObject may be reused in future (for example, if it is + * an instance variable of another object), it is recommended to clear the + * pointer to %NULL rather than retain a dangling pointer to a potentially + * invalid #GObject instance. Use g_clear_object() for this. */ void g_object_unref (gpointer _object) |