On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 6:26 AM, Philip Withnall <phi...@tecnocode.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all, > > We just landed a patch in GLib which propagates the type from the > argument of g_object_ref() to its return type: > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?id=3fae39a5d > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790697 > > The idea here is that it will catch invalid implicit casts which the > compiler otherwise wouldn’t have noticed because g_object_ref() > previously operated entirely on gpointers. This will eliminate a whole > class of bugs: bugs which are unlikely to exist, but are a complete > pain to track down if they do. > Great work. Another 3 or 4 or 200 of these and we'll almost have a C++ compiler! tongue firmly and warmly in cheek :)))
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