Add reference counted stringswip/ebassi/rc

Instead of copying strings around, we can box them using the g_ref_* API
and add reference counting to the char array.

Reference counted strings can be used with any string utility function.

1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/glib/grefstring.h b/glib/grefstring.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cc766b03d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/glib/grefstring.h
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+/* GLib - Library of useful routines for C programming
+ * Copyright 2016  Emmanuele Bassi
+ *
+ * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the GNU
+ * Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __G_REF_STRING_H__
+#define __G_REF_STRING_H__
+
+#if !defined (__GLIB_H_INSIDE__) && !defined (GLIB_COMPILATION)
+#error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
+#endif
+
+#include <glib/gutils.h>
+
+G_BEGIN_DECLS
+
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_52
+char *  g_ref_string_new        (const char *str);
+
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_52
+char *  g_ref_string_ref        (char       *str);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_52
+void    g_ref_string_unref      (char       *str);
+
+G_END_DECLS
+
+#endif /* __G_REF_STRING_H__ */