Does GTK always return same pointer for same widget?

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I have some GtkTreeViewColumns defined in a UI file. I extract them like this:

GtkTreeViewColumn *name_column;
name_column = GTK_TREE_VIEW_COLUMN (gtk_builder_get_object (builder, "name-column"));

Later, I get a GtkTreeViewColumn from somewhere else in GTK, for example:

GtkTreeViewColumn *column;
gtk_tree_view_get_path_at_pos (tree_view, x, y, NULL, &column, NULL, NULL);

I want to know whether column is the name_column or some other. Is it sufficient to check column == name_column? In other words, will GTK always represent a given widget with the same GObject *?

(This must be the basics of GTK; if I’m missing some required reading, please point me to the docs where this is spelled out.)

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Yes, an object is always equal to itself - assuming it’s actually the same object (i.e. literally the same, not just representing the same data)

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