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).