plugin-so.c: add comment about why we're not using a GLib linked list

[babeltrace.git] / src / lib / plugin / plugin-so.c

diff --git a/src/lib/plugin/plugin-so.c b/src/lib/plugin/plugin-so.c
index be4fc428b2147ee78d7ad55a398187a384240c0a..06c0b6342e38e6cb290f48c3d66de289d64ca44e 100644 (file)
--- a/src/lib/plugin/plugin-so.c
+++ b/src/lib/plugin/plugin-so.c
@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ BT_PLUGIN_MODULE();
  * component class is removed from this list, the shared library handle
  * object's reference count falls to zero and the shared library is
  * finally closed.
+ *
+ * We're not using a GLib linked list here because this destructor is
+ * called after GLib's thread-specific data is destroyed, which contains
+ * the allocated memory for GLib data structures (what's used by
+ * g_slice_alloc()).
  */
 
 static