[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] introspect: Fix a minor ABI regression introduced in 85e7fbc196

[Arun Raghavan]

On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 11:44 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> It seems that when converting to profiles2, the extra NULL terminated
> profile object used in profiles was dropped. This caused regressions
> in e.g. pavucontrol and kcm_phonon which relied on the previous
> (documented) behaviour.
> 
> The above said, this *shouldn't* be needed as far as I can see.
> The use of pa_xnew0 should initialise the memory to zero and thus
> these variables should already be NULL. Issues have been reported
> so the problem does seem to need fixing in some capacity:
> 
> See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12155
> ---

As you say, this shouldn't be necessary. Please hold off on pushing this
until we understand if it does fix the problem and why.

Cheers,
Arun