Re: [ft] Question about FT_Get_Sfnt_Name

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> I have a question about FT_Get_Sfnt_Name. The official
>> documentation about this
>> function(https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-sfnt_names.html#FT_Get_Sfnt_Name)
>> gives the following information:
>>
>>   The ‘string’ array returned in the ‘aname’ structure is not
>>   null-terminated. The application should deallocate it if it is no
>>   longer in use.

This information is incorrect.

>> However, every time I try to free the string, it always causes a
>> double-free error.
> 
> I can confirm I get the same kind of error in python_freetype
> <https://github.com/ldo/python_freetype>. My conclusion is: don’t
> free the string.

Yep.  Documentation fixed in git!  Thanks for the report.


    Werner