[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#465462: Bug#465462: Bug#465462: Bug#465462: /usr/bin/wish8.5: segfault for wish
Sergei Golovan
sgolovan at nes.ru
Fri Feb 15 12:45:36 UTC 2008
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
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