Re: Pushing a NULL into g_async_queue

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Alan M. Evans wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> Is there some good reason for the prohibition on passing NULL data into
> g_async_queue_push()? I checked the glib sources and the only reason I
> could find is that data==NULL won't pass the g_return_if_fail(data)
> test. What is the reason for this seemingly arbitrary limitation?
>  
This question is probably better suited to gtk-list or 
gtk-app-devel-list -- gtk-devel-list is for discussion of development of 
GTK.

In answer to your question, consider the g_async_queue_try_pop() and 
g_async_queue_timed_pop() functions.  They will either return a value 
from the queue, or NULL if no items exist.  If you can store NULLs in 
the queue, then the result becomes ambiguous.

James.