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| author | Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org> | 2007-06-07 12:22:20 -0400 |
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| committer | Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org> | 2007-06-07 12:24:21 -0400 |
| commit | b6ee6c531c41adb57512fe0eaf21558e5d03f04b (patch) | |
| tree | 12976da04e31f1b4efbd2cb32358d1dab324d755 /NEWS | |
| parent | 2399f923d504fba6b3dcbd0a185cd3d4b29b4dcf (diff) | |
[NEWS] Add par about Chris 'ickle' Wilson's error-handling improvements work
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@@ -18,6 +18,20 @@ introduce work queues for the xlib backend that deferred the destruction of the X resources until the next time the application directly operated on a xlib surface. +Improved error handling patchs +------------------------------ +Cairo has a fairly unique error-handling scheme that retains error +status with objects infected. This requires lots of internal paths +dealing with error returns and directing the error to the right +object and releasing resources correctly (like all good libraries do). +Chris Wilson previsouly stressed the memory allocation paths by +injecting memory allocations faults into cairo's performance test suite +and fixed all found issues. In this release he has done the same, plus +applying other static and dynamic stress tests on the main cairo test +suite and fixed a whole lot of other error-handling errors. We were +pleased to find that his work fixed a highly-dupped crasher in +gnome-about: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431990 + Release 1.4.6 (2007-05-01 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>) ========================================================= |