Re: avoiding relocations in type registration

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Tim Janik wrote:
>
> > > GType
> > > g_type_register_static_simple (GType             parent_type,
> > > 			       const gchar      *type_name,
> > >                               guint16           class_size,
> > >                               GClassInitFunc    class_init,
> > >                               guint16           instance_size,
> > >                               GInstanceInitFunc instance_init,
> > >                               GTypeFlags        flags);
> >
> > yeah, considerably even since .text is ro and shared.
> > thanks Matthias, can you commit this please? provided
> > it's properly tested.
>
> Ok, now that Tim accepted this, can we have a _full version too?
> As pointed already, GStreamer users GBaseInitFunc too...  Having
> a _full version we can in fact depreate use of the struct
> version.

if this is really useful in GStreamer for a lot of cases, you can code
up your own specialized version extremely easily. just look at how
g_type_register_static_simple() is implemented, customize it for gstreamer
needs and put it somewhere next to other gstreamer utility functions.


> --behdad
> http://behdad.org/

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