[Libguestfs] [PATCH] Non-working support for GObject Introspection.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:58:57PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:54:05PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Actually this won't work either because of this 2nd requirement from GType
> > 
> >  1. All class structures must contain as first member a GTypeClass structure. 
> >  2. All instance structures must contain as first member a GTypeInstance structure.
> 
> I guess we could put some padding at the beginning of the real
> guestfs_h structure.  It shouldn't break the ABI because no callers
> should be looking inside the guestfs_h structure.
> 
> The current _GTypeInstance just contains a single pointer, so 8 bytes
> of padding ought to do it ...

This is a bit trickier than it looks.

GObject needs to know the size of the structure, and obviously we
don't expose this.  If we expose it through a libguestfs API call,
then there seems to be the danger that GObject could try to move /
duplicate the structure.  That would break libguestfs because we
maintain a list of pointers to open handles internally.

I think I'll leave this for now.

Rich.

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