Re: bug in variable.c: fontpath_handler(ACTION_GET)

[Harald H. <h.h...@tu...>]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> There seems to be a bug in file
> =09variable.c
> which sometimes causes 'test palette' to segfault. It shows up in some
> combinations of save_set(), load_file(), and do_string("reset;");
>
> "valgrind" helped to discover the problematic place. It is in routine
> fontpath_handler(action, path) in case ACTION_GET:
>
> Below is an ad-hoc fix -- and actually two possibilities of the fix. Does
> someone (Harald?) know what that code is doing and propose a correct fix?

It's ages ago that I have programmed the fontpath handling. But I will
have a look at it at home. Please give me two days to find it out again.

Yours
Harald

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