Improve the docs for g_object_get_property(). (#153424, Stefan Kost)

[platform/upstream/glib.git] / docs / reference / gobject / tmpl / objects.sgml

diff --git a/docs/reference/gobject/tmpl/objects.sgml b/docs/reference/gobject/tmpl/objects.sgml
index 2d16e5d..0f3f4cc 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/reference/gobject/tmpl/objects.sgml
+++ b/docs/reference/gobject/tmpl/objects.sgml
@@ -768,11 +768,11 @@ Gets a property of an object.
 </para>
 <para>
 In general, a copy is made of the property contents and the caller is
-responsible for freeing the memory in the appropriate manner for the type, 
-for instance by calling g_free() or g_object_unref(). 
+responsible for freeing the memory by calling g_value_unset().
 </para>
 <para>
-See g_object_get().
+Note that g_object_get_property() is really intended for language
+bindings, g_object_get() is much more convenient for C programming.
 </para>
 
 @object: a #GObject