Currently we often do a octstr_duplicate instead of the
octstr_get_ref in my made up example. This is simplified
but the pattern occurs quite often...
Regards
Jörg
-----Original Message-----
From: Aarno Syvänen
To: Jörg Pommnitz
Cc: ''[EMAIL PROTECTED]' '
Sent: 12/12/01 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: Ref-Counted octstr
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
