Re: Did You Know That FT_Done_Face Can Return An Error?
Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> Fri, 11 May 2018 06:32:16 +0200 (CEST)
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.fonts.fontconfig |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> 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.
Well, the stdc version of `free' *does* crash if you try to improperly
deallocate memory blocks. And it returns an error code on programmer
error (i.e., an invalid `FT_Face' handle).
Werner
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