Re: guile-gnome crash; help?

[steve tell]

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Andy Wingo wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> On Sun 23 Sep 2007 00:31, steve tell <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Any hints on debugging a coredump that appears to be related to memory
> > corruption in a program using guile-gnome-platform?

> Perhaps the dump-or-not behavior is related to the new slice allocator
> in GLib; try running with G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly for
> more normal behavior.


Those settings seem to cure things; thanks for the hint!

More specificly, G_SLICE=always-malloc is the setting that apparently 
makes the difference.

> From reading the glib manual section on running and debugging with 
environment variables, it seems likely that somthing (gtk+ or 
guile-gnome-platform) is using g_slice incorrectly.

Next steps seem to be somehow trying newer glib and gtk+2.x,
or maybe just a glib new enough to support G_SLICE=debug-blocks.

Steve