[gst-devel] -lmcheck

[vishnu at pobox.com]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:23:19PM -0700, Erik Walthinsen wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 vishnu at pobox.com wrote:
> > i tried turning on glibc malloc debugging by linking with -lmcheck.
>
> OK, I'll have to try that.  How'd you add it to the CFLAGS, manually?
> Maybe we should have some more automatic way of doing it?

i didn't add it to configure.base yet, pending your advisement.

If it was up to me then i'd link it to gstreamer-launch by default,
but i'm not sure you want to do that.

> > Ugh.  This is totally unacceptable.  Gstreamer needs to become
> > most robust!
>
> Ugh.  This sucks.  We've got to find a way to more GStreamer more robust.
> <insert suggestions here>

Encapsulation?

> Can you explain
> why you think this is a GStreamer bug and not a bug in glib (at
> gthread-posix.c:140)?

Heh, open the glibc manual and search for mcheck.

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