But then valgrind complains, i.e there's noise. :( That's also bad for the whole of us.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:40:50 +0200 Raphael Kubo da Costa > <raphael.kubo.da.co...@intel.com> said: > > > Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@profusion.mobi> writes: > > > > > ouch, so they are not refcounted and it will free at first exit... > > > that's bad, quite bad :-) > > > > > > Option #1 is talk to fc guys and see if they can add that. It would be > > > more correct. > > > > Looking at Fontconfig's mailing list archives, it looks like vtorri hit > > the exact same problem a few years ago but didn't manage to get a > > refcounting patch in. > > > > I'll take a look at that now. > > > > In any case, some interesting facts from the mailing list: > > > > > FcFini() is designed to only be called by debugging code from > > > applications, not for normal use by other libraries. > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.fonts.fontconfig/3160 > > > > > FcFini was added so that valgrind output could be used to discover > > > leaks in fontconfig. Normal applications should not use it, although > > > I can see why they might want to (eliminate memory usage after a > > > period of using fontconfig). > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.fonts.fontconfig/3161 > > > > Keith Packard did support making FcFini()'s behavior less aggressive > > nonetheless. > > that's why efl does it by default... to cover "this case". we can stop > calling > it.. but there are downsides to that.. :) i'm on the fence - it's better to > call it, BUT... if its not practical.. then commenting it out is ok i > guess. > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- Tom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
