Re: a bug in ft2 (uninitialized variable)

[Werner LEMBERG]

> >In FreeType2, 'args' of FT_Open_Args type is not initialized.

> Well, yes and no. With wrong usage of the FT_Open_Args argument, it will
> behave unexpectedly, but it only uses the fields specified by the
> args.flags fields. So you always have to specify args.flags, and depending
> on that value, you have to initialize one or more other fields. This
> example (from ftmac.c)
> 
>     args.flags = ft_open_stream;
>     args.stream = stream;
> 
> is correct: because of the ft_open_stream flag, *only* the args.stream
> field is accessed later, the other fields are ignored. I agree it's
> somewhat brittle, though...

Hirotsugu is just sitting beneath me in Tsukuba :-) He actually showed
me a piece of code where initialization is really missing.  I'll check
that.


    Werner