Re: [gmime-devel] GObject unref hell

[Mario Theodoridis <mario theodoridis regify com>]

On 19/12/13 14:28, Paul J Stevens wrote:
> On 06-11-13 10:21, Mario Theodoridis wrote:
>
> > 2. Is there a way to safely unref a GObject, i.e. unref it if it needs
> > to be? This is mainly because it is not always clear to me when and when
> > not due to issues like the current.
>
> Bit late to the game here, but what helped me a *lot* was tracking
> references using an external tool:
>
> http://git.dbmail.eu/paul/gobject-list/
>
> which I forked from
>
> http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/cassidy/gobject-list.git/
>
> saved my day. A bit like valgrind for object references.
Thanks Paul,

that helps right now because things leak like a sieve and according to 
refdbg PRE_FINALIZE is called but never FINALIZE.
Valgrind always came back clean.


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