QoreReferenceCounter Class Reference

provides atomic reference counting to Qore objects More...

#include <QoreReferenceCounter.h>

Inheritance diagram for QoreReferenceCounter:

Collaboration diagram for QoreReferenceCounter:

Public Member Functions
DLLEXPORT	QoreReferenceCounter ()
	creates the reference counter object
DLLEXPORT	~QoreReferenceCounter ()
	destroys the reference counter object
DLLLOCAL bool	is_unique () const
	returns true if the reference count is 1 More...
DLLLOCAL int	reference_count () const
	gets the reference count More...
DLLEXPORT bool	ROdereference () const
	atomically decrements the reference count More...
DLLEXPORT void	ROreference () const
	atomically increments the reference count

Protected Attributes
QoreThreadLock	mRO
	pthread lock to ensure atomicity of updates for architectures where we don't have an atomic increment and decrement implementation

Detailed Description

provides atomic reference counting to Qore objects

Member Function Documentation

DLLLOCAL bool QoreReferenceCounter::is_unique ( ) const

inline

returns true if the reference count is 1

Returns

returns true if the reference count is 1

Referenced by QoreListNodeEvalOptionalRefHolder::edit().

DLLLOCAL int QoreReferenceCounter::reference_count ( ) const

inline

gets the reference count

Returns

returns the current reference count

DLLEXPORT bool QoreReferenceCounter::ROdereference

(

)

const

atomically decrements the reference count

returns true if the reference count is now zero

Returns

true if the reference count is now zero

Referenced by AbstractPrivateData::deref().

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• include/qore/QoreReferenceCounter.h (6813)