From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org, 35204@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35204: 27.0.50; Crash on Cygwin
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 23:26:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2a5fsoq.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831s27mezn.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 12 Apr 2019 18:15:40 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
>> CC: "35204@debbugs.gnu.org" <35204@debbugs.gnu.org>
>> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 14:54:21 +0000
>>
>> I can replicate the crash on my system, but reverting only a tiny part of the
>> commits in question seems to fix it, in the sense that I can successfully
>> evaluate x-display-monitor-attributes-list:
>>
>> diff --git a/src/xfns.c b/src/xfns.c
>> index 13f66f0718..3e4d037716 100644
>> --- a/src/xfns.c
>> +++ b/src/xfns.c
>> @@ -5030,7 +5030,7 @@ Internal use only, use `display-monitor-attributes-list'
>> instead. */)
>> mi->mm_height = height_mm;
>>
>> #if GTK_CHECK_VERSION (3, 22, 0)
>> - mi->name = xstrdup (gdk_monitor_get_model (monitor));
>> + mi->name = g_strdup (gdk_monitor_get_model (monitor));
>> #elif GTK_CHECK_VERSION (2, 14, 0)
>> mi->name = gdk_screen_get_monitor_plug_name (gscreen, i);
>> #endif
>>
>> I don't know enough about GTK to know why this fixes it or why no one else has
>> reported the problem. It's hard to see why this would be specific to Cygwin.
>
> We release storage of mi->name (in free_monitors) by calling xfree, so
> I'm surprised g_strdup is right here, as that is documented to need
> g_free instead. I wonder what am I missing.
I think the missing clue is in bug#35259: gdk_monitor_get_model may
return NULL, which g_strdup gladly accepts, but xstrdup does not.
https://debbugs.gnu.org/35259
--
Basil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-13 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-09 8:07 bug#35204: 27.0.50; Crash on Cygwin Katsumi Yamaoka
2019-04-09 9:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-10 4:54 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2019-04-10 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-11 2:31 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2019-04-11 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-11 23:02 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2019-04-12 1:01 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2019-04-12 7:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-12 8:00 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2019-04-12 14:54 ` Ken Brown
2019-04-12 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-13 22:26 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2019-04-13 22:50 ` Alex Gramiak
2019-04-14 2:15 ` Ken Brown
2019-04-14 23:26 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
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