Re: [dev] harfbuzz

From: Sylvain BERTRAND <sylware_AT_legeek.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 14:17:47 +0200

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 02:40:50PM -0400, Bobby Powers wrote:
> Hi Sylvain,
>
> Sylvain wrote:
> > I started to rewrite it, namely I unrolled the c++ code into
> > plain C code. But I did it only for basic layout rendering. The
> > API has a major race condition though (free before access), I did
> > try to warn the GTK+/pango devs, that was just hitting my head
> > against a wall.
>
> This sounds interesting, but I couldn't find anything in the harfbuzz
> mailing list archives about a race condition. Do you have links to
> the email thread?

That was on IRC. That said, you missed the "real" nasty point of
harfbuzz, the race condition is not important compared to that
one:

   ** It's written in c++ **

cheers,

-- 
Sylvain
Received on Sun Jun 22 2014 - 14:17:47 CEST

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