On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Marc-Antoine Ruel <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm pretty sure that enabling USE_SYSTEM_MALLOC will also lead to
>> corruption
>> > since WebKit is not hermetic (we allocate things externally that we then
>> > delete inside WebKit).
>> > -Darin
>>
>> Wouha! That really limit our capacity to link wekbit.dll.
>>
>
>
> Why?  So long as our allocator also lives in a DLL, we should be fine.
>
> The webkit.dll build should only be used for developer builds, where we can
> also just enabled the CRT DLL, and build tcmalloc as a DLL too.
>
> -Darin
>
>
I should add that "patches are welcome" if you'd like to make our webkit
hermetic w.r.t. memory allocation ;-)

I know of some issues...

-darin

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