Re: glib and dmalloc

[Patrik Sundberg <ps radiac mine nu>]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:11:10AM +0200, Tim Janik wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Patrik Sundberg wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> > 
> > the dmalloc support in glib seems broken (at least in 1.2.8 which I am
> > using) and after reading the archieves I can see some patches to make it
> > works, but also some people wanting to remove the support altogether.
> > 
> > so, will support be added correctly again or removed in future releases? I
> > for one like the idea of easy dmalloc integration (dmalloc being the best
> > tool I have used this far for memory debugging).
> 
> well, if enough people say they'd like to keep using dmalloc support in
> 2.0, and maybe someone sends in a patch to get glib to work with recent
> dmalloc version, that'd be a strong hint for us to _not_ remove dmalloc
> support in our development tree.
> (so far, there haven't been indications that the dmalloc support in glib
> is actually used)

i used a patch sent to this list with dmalloc 4.6.0 and things seemed to
work great. I think it would be really nice to have the dmalloc support.
yesterday i tried to go through a server-application looking up every
possible memory-leak and since the server uses glib for it's eventloop such
a job was much easier when i could trace the glib-memory calls too and get
correct file and linenumbers.

i would like to keep dmalloc support and could send in patches to get it to
work with 4.6.0 although these have already been posted one time.

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