[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#465462: Bug#465462: Bug#465462: Bug#465462: /usr/bin/wish8.5: segfault for wish

[Sergei Golovan]

On 2/15/08, Larry W. Virden <lvirden at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  Does your version core dump when no usable fonts are found, or just
>  return an error?

It coredumps. I haven't digged into Tk font internals (and into Xft)
deeply, so can't fix this bug properly. In this patch I tried to make
the probablility of fault less.

>
>  About the only legit time for an interpreter to core dump during an
>  error is if the resources needed to throw an error are not available
>  - and that, in general, would seem to me to be a pretty rare occurance...

Agreed.

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Sergei Golovan