[vlc-devel] [PATCH] libvlc: help debug object references remaining in debug builds

[Thomas Guillem]

Maybe, we should bring this patch back ? https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2017-June/113477.html

The debugger is not always attached, and sometimes you can't reproduce a leak. 
I often use this patch to get the actual leak...

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018, at 10:59, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, at 08:41, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> > No, before we could follow internals->first in the debugger. Now it's 
> > [...]
> > internals->siblings which just had garbage in it. I tried 
> > vlc_list_foreach(), vlc_list_first_entry_or_null() no luck.
> 
> I would argue that we need to be able to have the list of leaked item 
> easily, and not only with a debugger, notably for user reports;
> but the vlc_list is fine and a good idea.
> 
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