Re: Dumb idea on git library for script languages

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, tsgates wrote:

> 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