Re: [Libvisual-devel] dangerous free()

[Dennis S. <sy...@yo...>]

I don't thrust garbage collectors in a unmanaged environment, sorry
let's stick to the 'good' old memory model. I don't think it's
good for speed either. And we really need that, however I must
admit I have not investigated it.

Cheers,
Dennis


On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 00:43 -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> Em Thursday 01 July 2004 00:14, Duilio Javier Protti escreveu:
> > I have removed temporarily the free() call from
> > visual_video_free_buffer(), because we don't
> > known if this is memory malloc'ed from us (in XMMS
> > plugin this point to the pixels field of the
> > SDL_ScreenSurface created by SDL on another thread,
> > which can be even a hardware surface).
> > -- Thanks to valgrind --
> >
> > We need some flags inside the VisVideo that
> > tells if the screenbuffer was created by us or
> > not.
> 
> What about using a garbage collector? There is a good one for gcc (-lgd).
> It  runs on any code... it replaces malloc() for a special one and make free() 
> have no effect
>