On Sat, 2015-06-27 at 05:38 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
So, I just tried to use the memory profiler in glib, and I crashes really early because the gobject constructor (gobject_init_ctor) calls g_malloc before main() is reached. This means g_mem_set_vtable() is impossible to use. I don't necessarily think this is all that bad. Honestly we should never have made it a vtable (one extra vfunc per malloc...) and instead do memory profiling etc the "normal" way, i.e. LD_PRELOAD something with malloc interceptors. Maybe we should just remove all this code and keep g_mem_set_vtable as a dummy function that prints a deprecation warning?
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701694 I think.
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