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GSList internally doesn't use the same allocator as gmalloc. Refs #400. In particular, GSList in newer versions of GLib uses the slice allocator, which is probably where this crash is coming from.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
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HOWTOs in the "Related Pages" section.

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doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.