what propose is gst_object_sink and gst_object_ref_sink functions mainly ? I don't undertand what is mean as "float state"?

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Di, 2015-12-29 at 20:44 -0800, zhang007z wrote:
> what propose is gst_object_sink and gst_object_ref_sink functions
> mainly ? I don't undertand what is mean as "float state"?
> 
> if anybody have any idea for me, please spend you time for answering
> my issue,thank you in advance very much.

It's described in the GObject documentation here:
https://developer.gnome.org/gobject/stable/gobject-The-Base-Object-Type.html#floating-ref

The gst_object_*() functions related to reference counting are calling
the GObject API directly and only add some logging on top.

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