Hi,
Jörg Pommnitz wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I completely understand you. What I'd like
> to allow would be something like this:
>
> Octstr *foo;
> Octstr *bar;
>
> if (condition (bar)) {
> foo = do_something_with (bar); /* foo points to a new Octstr, refcount =
> 1 */
> } else {
> foo = octstr_get_ref (bar); /* foo becomes a new reference to the
> Octstr
> pointed to by bar; refcount = 2 */
> }
>
> do_something_else (foo);
>
> octstr_destroy (foo); /* refcount gets decremented. if it
> reaches zero,
> the Octstr actually gets released */
Huh. What did you mean with "unneeded octstr_duplicate calls" ?
Aarno
