Re: Dumb idea on git library for script languages

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 28, 2008, 10:28 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804281125330.5399@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <1209366216.17090.4.camel@prosumer>

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, tsgates wrote:

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> malloc_hook( size ) {
>   void * rtn = malloc( size )
>   if ( rtn ) {
>      add_to_mem_record( thread_id, rtn )
>   }
> }
> 
> free_hook( ptr ) {
>   if ( free( ptr ) ) {
>      del_mem_record( thread_id, ptr )
>   }
> }
> 
> clean_mem() {
>   for_each ( mem_records ) 
>     free( ptr )
> }

This is not enough. We have quite some static variables which point directly or indirectly to these allocated regions.

I think you'd need to implement some resetter functions if you were to libify libgit.a. The easier way would definitely be to go with libgit-thin, as Jakub suggested.

Ciao, Dscho