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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] RFD: The Future of Memory Management in Wireshark

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:05:32 -0400
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).