On 10 November 2015 at 23:10, Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net> wrote:

> Why does gobject-introspection (presumably giscanner, right?) need to
> run binaries on the target at all?  I thought it operated mostly on the
> source code.
>

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).

Ross