[Bug 788477] gst_object_ref_sink() documentation is confusing

GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla) bugzilla at gnome.org
Wed Dec 6 21:51:53 UTC 2017


https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788477

--- Comment #6 from Nicolas Dufresne (stormer) <nicolas at ndufresne.ca> ---
(In reply to Sebastian Dröge (slomo) from comment #4)
> "remove the floating reference" means that it decreases the reference count
> by one (and unset the floating flag) if the floating flag was set.
> 
> The original documentation is IMHO fine, and to really understand what all
> that means one has to read the GObject docs about floating references anyway
> :) Maybe a link to that would be useful.

Gst doc is a copy paste from the GObject doc, it still pretty hard to make
sense out of it. Maybe there isn't a great solution to that anyway ...

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