[gst-devel] Re: [gst-cvs] wtay gstreamer: gstreamer/ gstreamer/gst/ gstreamer/gst/base/

[David Schleef]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 03:23:59PM +0100, Andy Wingo wrote:
> Hi Wim,
> 
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 03:13 -0800, Wim Taymans wrote:
> >         * gst/gstobject.c: (gst_object_class_init), (gst_object_init),
> >         (gst_object_finalize):
> >         Remove cruft code, optimize alloc_trace.
> 
> This is not an entirely accurate description of what you just did. It
> used to be that alloc traces were recorded per-class, so you could see
> how many buffers were leaked, how many GstVorbisDec, etc. With your
> change they are now all lumped into one trace.
> 
> The previous behavior was worthwhile. Why did you remove it? Do you have
> a plan for adding it back?

Why is tracing interesting at all?  Glib has mechanisms for doing
the same thing.



dave...

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