On 10 November 2015 at 23:10, Phil Blundell <[email protected]> wrote: > Why does gobject-introspection (presumably giscanner, right?) need to > run binaries on the target at all? I thought it operated mostly on the > source code. >
Same reason gtk-doc's scanner executes code: vast amounts of relevant information can't reliably be extracted from source but is trivial to introspect at runtime (GObject hierarchy, properties, signals, etc). Ross
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