On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:37:01AM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:26 +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
>
> > Aprt from that, I am the only one still compiling on non-x86
> > machines?
> >
> > On a machine where char are unsigned by default, there is a
> > bug with spectacular side effects (burst of error messages
> > ending with segmentation fault) due to a char parameter in
> > s_basic_new_object(). When the first parameter is -1, it ends
> > up being converted to 255 and stored as such in the object
> > structure (where the type is int).
>
> -1 was OBJ_HEAD IIRC. And actually, it is gone in git HEAD. Try building
> from the HEAD now, and see if the bug manifests anywhere else.
Indeed it works now.
Off to testing cairo branch when I can on my slooow, 8 years old machine.
> in any case, OBJECT's "type" member is an integer, so I agree that we
> should be passing the object type as int.
>
> Thanks for the patch. Someone should apply it (I will if I remember, but
> if someone else with commit access wants to, please do - as I'll not get
> to it today).
It is indeed a fix for what is now a latent bug.
Regards,
Gabriel
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