<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 November 2015 at 23:10, Phil Blundell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pb@pbcl.net" target="_blank">pb@pbcl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":5kh" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">Why does gobject-introspection (presumably giscanner, right?) need to<br>
run binaries on the target at all? I thought it operated mostly on the<br>
source code.</div></blockquote></div><br>Same reason gtk-doc's scanner executes code: vast amounts of relevant information can't reliably be extracted from source but is trivial to introspect at runtime (GObject hierarchy, properties, signals, etc).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></div>