Re: C++ and Glib

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Tom Browder" <tbrowder home com> writes:
> I'm having problems with the GSList allocator when I use it within multiple
> instances of a class.  It seems to lose track of the structure of the
> central memory chunk.  I have a work-around for now by merely causing the
> allocator to use malloc to give me a chunk of memory one list item at a
> time, but I'm sure there is a correct solution.  (I have tried compiling
> glib without thread support just to see if that would affect things but it
> didn't)
> 
> There also seems to be a problem with C++ when encountering the common
> function g_slist_prepend (list, data) if list is NULL (it seems it ought to
> work).  Any thoughts?
> 

Not enough details to tell what's happening. I think it's safe to say
that GSList is used in around a million lines of code with no known
bugs though - so I would first suspect improper use of GSList.

Havoc