[cairo] cairo_font_face_t not freeing

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.nz
Tue May 2 12:26:12 UTC 2017


On Tue, 2 May 2017 08:05:06 -0400, Louis M wrote:

> The pointer before the 'cairo_font_face_destroy' should be valid
> because I didn't free the it yet. The output of this example program
> is this:
> 
> Refcount before freeing=2
> Refcount after freeing=1

If the pointer is valid, then the refcount must be nonzero. So the
above numbers look fine.

You can never see a meaningful refcount of zero, because by then the
pointer will not be valid.


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