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 3684acaedd930fa5b3948a375cb54d1c3067b6b2..46a506305aca2473873f9bd5de2b4f4f8cec09e5 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