The GdkPixbuf "simple animation" class implementation [1] uses an internal iterator type. Unfortunately, the GObject type instantiation function accidentally was placed in the header file instead of being a static function in the source file.
Johan noticed a crash in the new "defaultvaluetest" when the iter's finalize vfunc was called. The iter was created via g_object_new(). This function/type should have never been public. The only way to get a valid iter is to use the animation class' get_iter() vfunc. So, what should we do? Some options: 1) Work around the crash (which can only happen if you instantiate one of these via g_object_new()) 2) Remove this from the public API/ABI and pretend it never happened 3) Keep the function, but make it return G_TYPE_INVALID, and rename the function internally I'd vote for #2. There's precedent for breaking API/ABI, and there was no way anyone ever created and successfully used one of these iters via g_object_new(). If you did this, your program would crash. Thanks, Dom 1: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gtk%2B/trunk/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-simple-anim.h?view=markup _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
