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Merge branch 'update-variant-child-value-docs' into 'master'

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gvariant-core: Add a note about memory safety of children

See merge request GNOME/glib!1462
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Philip Withnall 2020-04-28 11:13:43 +00:00
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@ -1026,6 +1026,12 @@ g_variant_n_children (GVariant *value)
* The returned value is never floating. You should free it with
* g_variant_unref() when you're done with it.
*
* Note that values borrowed from the returned child are not guaranteed to
* still be valid after the child is freed even if you still hold a reference
* to @value, if @value has not been serialised at the time this function is
* called. To avoid this, you can serialize @value by calling
* g_variant_get_data() and optionally ignoring the return value.
*
* There may be implementation specific restrictions on deeply nested values,
* which would result in the unit tuple being returned as the child value,
* instead of further nested children. #GVariant is guaranteed to handle