Subject: Re: fribidi problem
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Nov 24 2001 - 05:13:40 CST
--- Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>
wrote: >
> We have got a serious problem with fribidi. It uses
> internally glib to
> do its memory management, and it would appear that
> this is not
> compatible with the memory management we use in AW,
> or at
> least with new; the result is that memory allocated
> by new can
> overlap with memory used by fribidi. This only came
> to surface as I
> have added code for bidi support in the stringset
> and toolbars (in
> principle this could affect the code handling the
> editing window too,
> but at the moment it does not; for some reason we
> are really
> stretched for memory at startup, but once we load
> the strings
> things get better -- incidentally, I have observed
> that for each id
> EV_Toolbar_Label is constructed three times).
>
> I have turned the offending code off for the time
> being, since we
> currently do not have a translation that would
> require bidi, but
> obviously this is not a solution. The only solution
> I can see is to
> fork fribidi and get rid of the glib calls, but I
> would rather avoid this
> for maintenance reasons, so if anyone else has a
> better
> suggestion, please let me know.
Can't we report the problems to the fribidi people and
see if a fix is not forthcoming at some point. If we
need it I'm sure others will need it sooner or later.
Andrew Dunbar.
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