[webkit-dev] WebKit memory management?

[George Staikos]

On 4-Jun-08, at 3:49 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

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> On Jun 3, 2008, at 10:58 PM, Paul Pedriana wrote:
>> Thanks for the response. I'm sorry, and perhaps I misunderstand,  
>> but I believe your statement about inline operator new is  
>> incorrect. Unless I misunderstand you, what you say is not  
>> supported by any existing compiler nor is it supported by the C++  
>> language standard. In summary, the 'inline' keyword does not  
>> negate or obviate the One Definition Rule. You can demonstrate the  
>> problem with the code below. Feel free to correct any  
>> misunderstanding that I may have of your explanation.
>
> This happens to work as intended on Mac OS X because  
> WTF_PRIVATE_INLINE expands to:
>
> __private_extern__ inline __attribute__((always_inline))
>
> This prevents an externally visible definition of global operator  
> new and delete from being seen.
>
> I agree this is technically wrong and I suspect it may cause  
> problems on, for example, Linux platforms. I think the Qt port has  
> turned off FastMalloc for this reason.

    That's correct.  It's definitely a problem there.

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