[Fontconfig] Did You Know That FT_Done_Face Can Return An Error?

Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu.org
Fri May 11 04:32:16 UTC 2018


> I fully agree with you.  Libraries should not crash **on bad data**.
> On programmer error and invalid memory state, crashing is safest for
> avoiding exploits and discovering and fixing bugs.

Well, the stdc version of `free' *does* crash if you try to improperly
deallocate memory blocks.  And it returns an error code on programmer
error (i.e., an invalid `FT_Face' handle).


    Werner


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