On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:55:33 +0100, Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm putting my money where my mouth is: I've modified the 2_0 code and > replaced > all strdup call with my_strdup call, implemented in debug.c > > This my_strdup is a complete ripoff from glib's g_strdup. It uses my_malloc to > assign memory allowing full usage of my_free throughout the code. > > This also allows clean test runs of the imap-server with garbage collection > enabled. > > I'm updating the debian packages accordingly for 2.0, and will upload > 2.0.2-0.20041129 shortly. Those will depend on libgc1 for garbage collection. > > Ilja, howabout it: can we start using gc in the codebase starting at 2.0.2?
I'm a bit worried about having a mix of gc and non-gc allocations. If we're using GLib stuff, and GLib allocates memory, we still have to free that. Wasn't it possible to make the whole program use GC_MALLOC? That would remove this objectiion from my side. Ilja
