Re: Turning off the slice allocator

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:22 +0100, Tim Janik wrote:

> i'm currently working on a dedicated G_SLICE variable that can support
> different checking/debugging modes, similar to MALLOC_CHECK_ as documented
> in glibc's malloc(3).
> 
> what i think would be great is if we reworked your patch to support
> G_DEBUG=gc-friendly which sets a glib variable glib_mem_gc_friendly to
> TRUE.
> then, all the #ifdef ENABLE_GC_FRIENDLY statements in glib can be changed to
> if (glib_mem_gc_friendly), to enable memory debugging/profiling without
> recompilation of glib (and for stock distribution binary packages).

We are already past API freeze for this release cycle in GNOME.  I'd
rather not delay this any further.

If you simply disable the slice allocator, you can already do a lot of
checking/debugging by running valgrind.

  Federico