Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 27893: /trunk/epan/dissectors/ /trun
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From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:17:31 -0600
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:33:24PM -0400, Bill Meier wrote:
> Martin Mathieson wrote:
> > This code uses g_slice_new(), which was introduced in glib 2.10.  Looking at
> > configure.in, isn't 2.4 the minimum supported version of glib ?

> I missed that. Thanks.
> 
> I'm cc'ing the dissector author so he can take a look at it.
> 
> (I'll determine a fix if there's no response in a few days).

Other parts of Wireshark use GMemChunks instead of the GLib slice 
allocator.  Although when using GLib 2.10+, GMemChunks is written to use 
the slice allocator anyway.  I haven't looked at the code in question 
above, but this may be the way to go to maintain backwards 
compatibility...


Steve