From 7ee974e91c05d334b3a186937916bc843c537b8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Petri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:40:14 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Don't perform reference counting on true, false and null

This makes their constructors thread safe. A special reference count
-1 is used to test whether to perform reference counting on a value or
not.
---
 src/jansson.h |  4 ++--
 src/value.c   | 12 ++++++------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/jansson.h b/src/jansson.h
index 3aa10de..2e8582b 100644
--- a/src/jansson.h
+++ b/src/jansson.h
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ json_t *json_null(void);
 
 static inline json_t *json_incref(json_t *json)
 {
-    if(json)
+    if(json && json->refcount != (unsigned int)-1)
         ++json->refcount;
     return json;
 }
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ void json_delete(json_t *json);
 
 static inline void json_decref(json_t *json)
 {
-    if(json && --json->refcount == 0)
+    if(json && json->refcount != (unsigned int)-1 && --json->refcount == 0)
         json_delete(json);
 }
 
diff --git a/src/value.c b/src/value.c
index c84bfd3..29f787c 100644
--- a/src/value.c
+++ b/src/value.c
@@ -431,9 +431,9 @@ json_t *json_true(void)
 {
     static json_t the_true = {
         .type = JSON_TRUE,
-        .refcount = 1
+        .refcount = (unsigned int)1
     };
-    return json_incref(&the_true);
+    return &the_true;
 }
 
 
@@ -441,9 +441,9 @@ json_t *json_false(void)
 {
     static json_t the_false = {
         .type = JSON_FALSE,
-        .refcount = 1
+        .refcount = (unsigned int)1
     };
-    return json_incref(&the_false);
+    return &the_false;
 }
 
 
@@ -451,9 +451,9 @@ json_t *json_null(void)
 {
     static json_t the_null = {
         .type = JSON_NULL,
-        .refcount = 1
+        .refcount = (unsigned int)1
     };
-    return json_incref(&the_null);
+    return &the_null;
 }
 
 
-- 
2.7.4