Re: Did You Know That FT_Done_Face Can Return An Error?
Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]> Thu, 10 May 2018 14:05:13 -0700
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Hi Lawrence, What can I say without offending people.... I fully agree with you. Libraries should not crash **on bad data**. On programmer error and invalid memory state, crashing is safest for avoiding exploits and discovering and fixing bugs. On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected] > wrote: > I notice that Fontconfig ignores possible error returns from > FT_Done_Face and FT_Done_FreeType (cf src/fcdir.c, src/fcfreetype.c). > > Would you say this was wise? There seems to be a difference of opinion > on the FreeType list > <http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2018-05/threads.html> > about it. > _______________________________________________ > Fontconfig mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig > -- behdad http://behdad.org/ _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig