Re: [Evolution-hackers] Memory leaks

[Michael Meeks <michael meeks novell com>]

On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 16:32 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: 
> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 13:10 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > The fixes I mentioned are sitting in my working tree, and I'll commit
> > and push them today.

	This is awesome work - thanks ! :-)

> > If they're referenced by a global variable, surely valgrind would know
> > that they're reachable and would not complain about them?
> 
> I do not know how it works precisely.

	It should work nicely as David says.

> I just got a thought, what if some of those "possibly lost" come from
> GSlice? Then G_SLICE=always-malloc should help valgrind with it. At
> least a bit.

	Right - except for this, which is a disaster area :-) I had forgotten
that it was critical to turn this on (which turns off the glib slab
allocator) before valgrinding myself ;-)

	Hmm - I wonder how best to deal with that. I wonder if the glib guys
would accept a patch that incorporated /usr/include/valgrind.h's
RUNNING_ON_VALGRIND magic ;-) [ amazingly fun etc. ].

	Thanks,

		Michael.

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