Re: GTK program (a Gimp plugin) crashes only on Windows

[Olivier Sessink <oliviersessink gmail com>]

On 04/25/2012 06:58 PM, Alessandro Francesconi wrote:
> Hello everyone, I'm facing a problem with the development of a plug-in
> for The Gimp program.
> I'm writing here because it uses GTK libs and, actually, the problem
> regards a crash of a GTK widget.

my experience is that the memory allocator on windows works differently,
and thus memory errors in your program are less visible on Linux.

Use valgrind to find the errors on Linux:

G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly valgrind --tool=memcheck
--num-callers=32 ./myapp

Olivier