Re: [Valgrind-developers] [PATCH] Add support for GLib memory management functions

[Bart V. A. <bar...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Julian Seward <js...@ac...> wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 July 2008 09:47, Tom Hughes wrote:
>> Do the GLib allocation routines not wind up calling the C library ones
>> and hence get caught that way?
>
> Indeed; we've been shipping memcheck for N years now (5+ ?) and I don't
> recall anybody telling us we were not intercepting memory allocation/
> free functions in glib.  I would think memcheck would be unusable on
> KDE and Gnome applications due to high noise level if that were really
> the case.  Are you sure?

Hello Tom and Julian,

Further analysis learned me that GLib uses the glibc memory allocation
functions, unless told to do otherwise by a call to
g_mem_set_vtable(). Sorry for the confusion -- I'll drop the patch.

Bart.