Re: [gtk-list] Re: Bug in gdkwindow.c?

[Andreas Tille <tille physik uni-halle de>]

On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Tim Janik wrote:

> you're perfectly correct about your guess, this has been fixed in the
> 1.1 tree already though.
So would you recommend me to leave the stable 1.0.x tree??
I don't want to investigate deep into GTK+ development and want
to concentrate on my real problem.
How stable is the development release?
I could cope with some changes which require to change my code
a little bit, but I can't cope with a lot of unexpected crashs.

> we usually try to plug all memory leaks that we encounter, however sometimes
> something slips through. there's also a bunch of memory that gtk will keep
> allocated forever, so it's not always that easy to determine whether some
> specific allocation leaks or not.
> some developers do run efence or similar memory debuggers on gtk occasionally,
> so chance is not too bad that most leaks are going to be plugged in some newer
> versions.
Would it help if I would report, which adresses mainly causes the
memory leaks?  I noticed that I get a very lot of leaks (50 to 100)
but they are caused at only a few places.

Kind regards

         Andreas.