Re: guile-gnome2 - Segmentation fault

[Andy Wingo]

On Tue 06 Jul 2010 16:37, Patrick Bernaud <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi David,
>
> David Pirotte writes:
>  > [...]
>  > Does it crashes for you [any guile-gnome user willing to try?] too?
>
> Yes it does for me too. 
>
> In versions of gtk >= 2.11, tree iterators (GtkTreeIter) are allocated
> through the GSlice memory allocator
> (http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Memory-Slices.html)
> while current guile-gnome is allocating them through the more general
> memory-handling g_malloc() and friends.
>
> Freeing one item allocated with g_malloc() (what guile-gnome does)
> with GSlice func (what GTK does) has the consequences you
> experimented.
>
> GtkTextIter is also concerned by the problem and maybe other types
> too.
>
> Until guile-gnome is updated, set the environment variable G_SLICE to
> 'always-malloc'
> (http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-running.html#G_SLICE)
> and it should be ok.

Aaaaaah, I see now. Thank you for the analysis. Will fix soon.

Andy
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