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Fix for segfault in Font_metric::mark_smob (optimization; Debian bug #68
From: |
Don Armstrong |
Subject: |
Fix for segfault in Font_metric::mark_smob (optimization; Debian bug #684817) |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:09:42 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
The attached patch fixes a segfault in mark_smob where s gets
optimized away and garbage collected before m goes out of scope,
leading to a segfault.
There may be other cases of this bug floating around, but I didn't
look particularly hard for them.
Don Armstrong
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0001-do-not-allow-s-to-be-garbage-collected-in-Font_metri.patch
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- Fix for segfault in Font_metric::mark_smob (optimization; Debian bug #684817),
Don Armstrong <=