[PATCH 1/3] Revert "EXA: Accumulate arbitrary number of glyphs without flushing."

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Nov 30, 2009, at 08:41, Keith Packard wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:17:51 +0100, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
> 
>> Not sure what I was thinking, turns out alloca() of a size derived from client
>> input is a bad idea.
> 
> That was the sole remaining use of alloca outside of the quartz
> back-end.
> 
> As a reminder to others -- alloca should never be used in the X server;
> it cannot be relied upon to return NULL on failure, doing various things
> From crashing the application to overwriting other parts of the
> application.

Wow, I didn't even realize it was being used in XQuartz.  alloca does return NULL on failure on OSX, so it's not as much of a problem here, but this should make things more consistent.  I'll get you a patch in a few.

--Jeremy



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