[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-common] Marshaller: rename _add_ref() to _add_by_ref()

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Tue Dec 6 09:49:57 UTC 2016


On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 04:19:04PM -0600, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> The spice_marshaller_add_ref() family of functions is confusing since it
> sounds like you're incrementing a reference on the marshaller. What it
> is actually doing is adding a data buffer to the marshaller by reference
> rather than by value. Changing the function names to _add_by_ref() makes
> this clearer.
> 
> The old functions are deprecated and are simply inline functions that
> call the new functions.

Do we have to keep the old ones?

Christophe
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