Reference counting (devel. question) (fwd)

[Erik Alapää]

On Fri, 27 May 2005, David W. Hankins wrote:

>
> When an object is created, it starts with a reference count of 1.
> When you attach an object to another, you want to blah_reference()
> it, to increment that counter...when you're done with it,
> blah_dereference() will both decrement the counter and null out your
> pointer...if the reference count reaches zero, it is freed.
>
>
> Does that help?
>

Yes. I already guessed that was the way to do it and added reference
and dereference calls. Thanks for the info!

Regards,

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