On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 02:45:56PM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > because if you get a pointer to an internal data structure you're > allowing people to use it. using const would also not work because of > the (lax) semantics of const in C. it would, in essence, allow you to > poke around with internals that are none of your concern. future > releases of gtk+ might even result in a computed Allocation which is not > stored by the widget itself - so using an out parameter is the only > safe, consistent and future-proof way of returning structures in C. OK - thank you for the explanation! Patrick _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
