[Fribidi-discuss] memory allocation problems

[Tomas Frydrych]

During my work on AbiWord I have discovered that the 
g_mem_chunk_new allocation mechanism that is used in fribidi 
appears to be incompatible with allocation by malloc, namely, 
memory allocated by g_mem_chunk_new can be used in a 
subsequent call to malloc.

Building fribidi without glib is at the moment problematic. For one, 
there is a bug in free_rl_list which causes immediate SIGSEGV 
(patch attached). Further, fribidi_mini_glib.h file defines the glib 
types using typedef, which in case of an application that uses glib 
and merely does not want fribidi to use it, causes problems.

Considering that all that fribidi uses from glib are the glib types, 
memory routines and g_list_append, I am wondering whether the 
glib dependence is more of hinderance to fribidi than anything else.

Tomas

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--- fribidi.c	Tue Nov 27 16:24:30 2001
+++ fribidi_mod.c	Tue Nov 27 16:29:00 2001
@@ -1054,10 +1054,8 @@
 {
 
   TypeLink *p, *pp;
-  if (!pp)
-    return;
 #ifdef USE_SIMPLE_MALLOC
-  for (pp = type_rl_list; pp; pp = pp->next)
+  for (pp = type_rl_list; pp; pp = p)
     {
       p = pp->next;
       g_free (pp);