Re: RFD: Slab allocator (sl_alloc()) related to r37112

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>]

Gerald Combs wrote:
> On 5/13/11 3:00 AM, Jakub Zawadzki wrote:
> > I wanted to cleanup code like:
> > #if GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(2,10,0)
> >         ptr  = g_slice_new(...);
> > #else
> >         ptr = g_mem_chunk_alloc(...);
> > #endif
> > with single:
> >     ptr = sl_alloc(...);
> > sl_ allocator already passed multiple fuzz testing so it should be stable.
>
> Are many people still running GLib versions older than 2.10, or GTK+
> versions older than 2.12? If not, we should probably bump the minimum
> GLib and GTK+ versions after the Wireshark 1.6 branch is created. This
> would let us clean up quite a bit of code in the trunk.

The one thing I know that we'd lose support for is vanilla Solaris 10 
(it comes with glib-2.4 and gtk-2.4.9).  I've got dozens of systems 
running Wireshark like that, but I also know that my days of doing so 
are numbered.
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