[Fontconfig] Possible memory problem

[Stephan Kulow]

On Sunday 04 December 2005 09:48, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > The valgrind log is pretty much meaningless and just a warning.
>
> Any reason that you think so?  I've very rarely seen valgrind
> being wrong.
Sure, but it's a warning. And the warning says that the file written to 
disc contains uninitialized bytes. But valgrind can't say if these bytes
have any meaning and for sure it's no direct reason to crash. So I say
it's meaningless in that context.

>
> >  Do you get a crash with the pango example too?
>
> No, but then again, I don't get a crash with most of problems
> that I find using valgrind and fix.
But it shows that the problem is within firefox. It uses the API in a
way that is used nowhere else.

>
> > Or a valgrind hit with firefox?
>
> valgrinding firefox takes just too long to try. :(
Hmm, you wouldn't want to read your gmail with it, but it should startup
in a reasonable time :)

>
> > I have no problems whatsoever with firefox and the fontconfig
> > CVS. But then again I have a newer firefox version.
>
> If I slightly change my configuration, to use different fonts, I
> don't get any crashes.  That's basically how memory problems are.
> If you don't get hit, doesn't mean it's not there.
No reason to tell me about it - I have valgrind test cases named after me ;)

Geetings, Stephan

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