GLib RFC: Improve checking provided with --enable-mem-check

[Phillip Shelton]

Thank you all for your replies.

You were looking at glib-1.2.9?  I found a copy of 1.2.10

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Stanley [mailto:bds02@uow.edu.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 5:08 PM
> To: shelton@usq.edu.au
> Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: GLib RFC: Improve checking provided with 
> --enable-mem-check
> 
> 
> Phillip Shelton wrote:
> 
> >I am lost.  How does glib compare with glibc?
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: gnucash-devel-admin@lists.gnumatic.com
> >>[mailto:gnucash-devel-admin@lists.gnumatic.com]On Behalf Of 
> >>Ben Stanley
> >>Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:03 PM
> >>
> >>I have currently only looked at gmem.c in glib-1.2.9. Is 
> >>there any more 
> >>recent version that I should know about?
> >>
> >>Ben.
> >>
> glibc is the GNU implementation of the C library standard, 
> and as such 
> provides malloc() and free().
> 
> glib is a GNU utility library which is used extensively by 
> gtk, and in 
> turn by gnome (and also gnucash). Pretty much all memory 
> allocation in a 
> gnome program is done through g_malloc and g_free. glib also provides 
> things like hash tables, doubly linked lists, dates, and all 
> that other 
> really basic stuff that you need to do any serious programming, which 
> libc does not. (Not that I'm advocating glib as being the 
> best way to do 
> it!)
> 
> Ben.
> 
> 
>