On Fri, 2017-03-17 at 07:55 +0000, Daniel Boles wrote: > The copy is done as follows, to support copy-on-write: > > * This function will cause an implicit copy of the pixbuf data if > the > * pixbuf was created from read-only data. > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/tree/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.c# > n674 > > I thought as long as the apparent functioning of the object is still > the same to external users, then it is allowed to make internal > changes even on a const instance? Using mutable members. > > If so, then maybe it would still be OK to wrap that as a const > method.
We are wrapping that as a const method. But we don't need to make anything mutable. We just const_cast the GdkPixbuf*. C doesn't do full C++-like const, so this is often necessary. If I have misunderstood, maybe you could suggest a particular patch. Thanks. -- Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
