Re: GMemVTable broken

2015-06-27 Thread Philip Withnall
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

Re: GMemVTable broken

2015-06-27 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 20:50 -0700, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: Yeah, we've all been sort of aware of this for some time. I've abused it to the fact where I know that malloc and g_new / free and g_free will *always* be the same since a specific glib version. I think removing all the code is

GMemVTable broken

2015-06-26 Thread Alexander Larsson
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

Re: GMemVTable broken

2015-06-26 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
Yeah, we've all been sort of aware of this for some time. I've abused it to the fact where I know that malloc and g_new / free and g_free will *always* be the same since a specific glib version. I think removing all the code is fine. On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Alexander Larsson

Re: GMemVTable broken

2015-06-26 Thread Philip Chimento
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net wrote: Yeah, we've all been sort of aware of this for some time. I've abused it to the fact where I know that malloc and g_new / free and g_free will *always* be the same since a specific glib version. I think removing