Insight into an GObject's lifetime.

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\ I just needed a quick way to get an overview over the lifetime of a specific instance of a Vala class.\ Thus I need some informations about it’s creation - and more important - it’s destruction time.\ robster pointed me to gobject-list a small library which is preloaded and tracks gobjects’ _ref and _unref calls - so a great tool for vala code.\ \ It’s simple to get it up and running on Fedora:\

$ sudo yum install libunwind-devel glib2-devel
$ git clone git://git.collabora.co.uk/git/user/danni/gobject-list.git
$ make
...
$ cd /path/to/myapp/
$ LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libgobject-list.so myvalaapp | grep MyClass

\ More can be found in Danielle’s initial post and more about vala’s memory management can be found here.\ \ \ \

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