asing its reference count. This ensures that the node (as well as the <a href="ft2-glyph_management.html#FT_Glyph">FT_Glyph</a>) will always be kept in the cache until you call <a href="ft2-cache_subsystem.html#FTC_Node_Unref">FTC_Node_Unref</a> to &lsquo;release&rsquo; it.</p>
<p>If &lsquo;anode&rsquo; is NULL, the cache node is left unchanged, which means that the <a href="ft2-glyph_management.html#FT_Glyph">FT_Glyph</a> could be flushed out of the cache on the next call to one of the caching sub-system 