Thanks for shedding some light on this piece of code. There's some more light at the end of my dark GTK-knowledge tunnel.
>AFAIU, after the _new() the box has a special reference to it: the ref >count is one, but it is marked as "floating"[1]. Now gtk_object_sink() >decrements the ref coung by one *only* if the object is marked as >floating and does nothing otherwise. So the net effect of this code is >to clear the floating flag. See for example > > <http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/z57.html> > >for an explanation. > >- ------------ >[1] What this means in terms of practical consequences isn't quite clear >to me (perhaps some guru cares to give a pointer), but the idea is to >keep a ref to an yet-unused object you don't want to disappear from >under you before you've put it safely somewhere. Think of it as "half >referenced". > >Note that putting the object in a container or whatever sinks() it and >that leads to quite natural code without ref leaks. > > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
