[cairo] [patch] subsurface: fix memory leak

[Chris Wilson]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:33:35 +0000, "Henry (Yu) Song - SISA" <hsong at sisa.samsung.com> wrote:
> My question is why we need to set a subsurface is a snapshot of its target?  Theoretically, it is correct.  But no backends call _cairo_surface_subsurface_set_snapshot() except GL and XCB backends.  in GL, we do need get snapshot of a subsurface.  So this call is needed, but I don't see why we need to set the subsurface as its target's snapshot.  No backends grab its snapshot when tries to extract the source pattern.  Better ideas on preserving subsurface as snapshot of its target and break cyclic referencing?

Attaching the snaphot of the subsurface to the target is in order to tie
it into the modification notification. That is if you then render to the
target (possibly via the subsurface), the snapshot is detached and no
longer used as the source. That mechanism needs to be preserved if the
functionality is to be kept.

In the xlib backend, it is used to cache subsurfaces that require
extraction from the parent surface as required to fixup extend modes.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre