On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:26:13PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Hi Steve; you were very helpful with the last alpha bug reported by this > submitter; I'm wondering if you can give it a little attention. I don't > have easy access to an alpha to reproduce the problem.
Please ask upstream where they got the idea that g_type_register_static() returned a guint, or that it was otherwise ok to cast its GType return type to a guint. Years of debugging crashing gtk+ programs on alpha, and it's always the same thing -- somehow, GTK programmers are consistently getting bad information about how to use gobject, and I want to know where it's coming from so I can lart the people responsible. Attached is a partial patch which fixes the bug responsible for the *current* crasher bug on alpha. Searching the code, there are several more instances of this type abuse that will also need to be cleaned up if we want things like searching to not crash. I'll follow up with a full patch soon. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
