[Fribidi-discuss] memory allocation problems

[Behdad Esfahbod]

It seems that you are using fribidi-0.9.0, it has lots of bugs and 
memory faults, that all are fixed already, please use the latest 
fribidi from CVS, available at:

  http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=2722

fribidi will be released in a few weeks, the new version does not 
depend on glib, and is quite standalone.

behdad


On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Tomas Frydrych wrote:

> 
> 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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Behdad
6 Azar 1380, 2001 Nov 27

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