Re: RFD: The Future of Memory Management in Wireshark

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

Evan Huus wrote:
> The usage might look something like this:
>
> wmem_allocator_t *ep_scope = wmem_create_glib_allocator();
> doWork(ep_scope);
> wmem_destroy_glib_allocator(ep_scope);
>
> and then in doWork, instead of ep_alloc(numBytes) you would call
> wmem_alloc(ep_scope, numBytes).

Hopefully stupid question (without having had time to look at the code): 
does that mean passing ep_scope all the way down to the dissectors and 
where they do their allocations?  I hope not; it's been a pain just to 
get pinfo all the way down into some of the routines (for expert infos).
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