GLib/GObject+C as the lingua franca?

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 27 July 2008, nf2 wrote:
> koos vriezen wrote:
> > 2008/7/27 nf2 <nf2 at scheinwelt.at>:
> >> I thought of really lightweight wrapping. Very minimalistic. See
> >> the example below. Mainly that you can put GObjects into C++
> >> containers and for garbage collection...
> >
> > But you also need to add a copy constructor then and think about
> > either implicit sharing the GFile object or copying ... GFile
> > doesn't seem to have ref counting only g_file_dup, so for sharing
> > you must do your own ref counting.
>
> GFile inherits from GObject. Therefore it does have ref-counting.
>
> > But if you can easily track the file objects, why not simply store
> > the pointers in the C++ containers.
>
> Again - garbage collection.
>
> The attached example implements the "GO" template class and tests it
> a little - valgrind reports 0 leaks :-)
> A bit like a C++ class with QExplicitlySharedDataPointer.

There's no need to reinvent the wheel:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/libs/smart_ptr/intrusive_ptr.html


I doubt people would be happy if you'd introduce a dependency on boost, 
but you could still copy the well-tried implementation of 
boost::intrusive_ptr<T> instead of rolling your own implementation.


Regards,
Ingo
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