On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 11:12 PM Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 17:15 +0200, Rafael Fonseca wrote:
> > @@ -503,14 +503,13 @@ virNWFilterGetXMLDesc(virNWFilterPtr nwfilter,
> > unsigned int flags)
> > int
> > virNWFilterRef(virNWFilterPtr nwfilter)
> > {
> > - VIR_DEBUG("nwfilter=%p refs=%d", nwfilter,
> > - nwfilter ? nwfilter->parent.u.s.refs : 0);
> > + VIR_DEBUG("nwfilter=%p", nwfilter);
>
> I wonder about this change. If it doesn't include the ref count in the
> debug message, is it actually still useful to anyone? I've never used
> it, so I don't know. If we want to keep it, we could of course access
> the GObject ref_count member variable.
I was looking for ways to do this in glib and this is what the doc says:
"All the fields in the GObject structure are private to the GObject
implementation and should never be accessed directly." [1]
And it seems there is no alternative other than using a weak reference
to have a callback called.
[1] https://developer.gnome.org/gobject/stable/gobject-The-Base-Object-Type.html#GObject-struct
Att.
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Rafael Fonseca
