Function Macro

GLibrc_box_new

since: 2.58

Declaration

#define g_rc_box_new (
  type
)

Description

A convenience macro to allocate reference counted data with the size of the given type.

This macro calls g_rc_box_alloc() with sizeof (type) and casts the returned pointer to a pointer of the given type, avoiding a type cast in the source code.

Available since: 2.58

This function is not directly available to language bindings.

Parameters

type

Type: -

The type to allocate, typically a structure name.