Re: Dependency Walker & my application

[Alf C Stockton <alf stockton co za>]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> Alf C Stockton writes:
> > When profiling my application in Dependency Walker 2.1 on Windows I get the
> > following lines appearing in red.
> > Is this a problem with my code ?
>
> > GetProcAddress(0x7C900000 [NTDLL.DLL], "gtk_rc_reset_styles")
> > GetProcAddress(0x7C800000 [KERNEL32.DLL], "gtk_rc_reset_styles")
> > GetProcAddress(0x08370000 [DEPENDS.DLL], "gtk_rc_reset_styles")
>
> etc.
>
> Seems that your code (or libglade, or something?) has called
> g_module_open(NULL) to get a handle to thw whole of the running
> process, and now looks for gtk_rc_reset_styles in it. This means
> looking in all loaded modules (DLLs). This isn't necessarily any
> problem as such, unless it keeps doing this repeatedly, which might
> cause some slowness. On the other hand, I don't understand why the
> code needs to look up gtk_rc_reset_styles dynamically? It's in GTK+,
> so just plain linking with GTK+ at build time should be enough?
I have searched through my code for g_module_open and gtk_rc_reset_styles and 
found nothing there so I searched the dlls and found g_module_open occurs in 
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll, libgmodule-2.0-0.dll and libpango-1.0-0.dll.
Now what ?

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Alf Stockton    www.stockton.co.za

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