Re: [ft-devel] FT_New_Memory_Face crashes

[Louis Desjardins]

Sure - it is embarrassing really but I was simply accessing memory that was placed on the stack (and then freed), rather than the heap. When I was performing my file integrity check, I was doing this when the memory was still valid. 

Quite embarrassing, thanks for your help and sorry for wasting your time!

> From: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 13:06:17 -0400
> Subject: Re: [ft-devel] FT_New_Memory_Face crashes
> To: address@hidden
> CC: address@hidden; address@hidden
>
> If you are ok with revealing what went wrong it would be useful to
> know more details. I'm curious and it would be useful to have in the
> mailing list archive.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Louis Desjardins
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > That's a great troubleshooting tip - thank-you. Using this causes the
> > function to succeed in Android - so I am embarrassed to say that the problem
> > is on my end afterall :s
> > I will take it from here, thanks for all the help!
> >
> >> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 06:42:34 +0200
> >> To: address@hidden
> >> CC: address@hidden; address@hidden
> >> Subject: Re: [ft-devel] FT_New_Memory_Face crashes
> >> From: address@hidden
> >>
> >>
> >> > The main difference between the standalone and Android app is the
> >> > way that the input TTF file is read in, however I verified that my
> >> > TTF file is read in correctly in Android, by writing out the buffer
> >> > that I read in to a new file, and then comparing the original with
> >> > this - they are identical.
> >>
> >> What about putting the font into a static buffer, this is, converting
> >> the font into something like this:
> >>
> >> const char* font = { 0x01, 0x05, 0x03, ... }
> >>
> >> This could eliminate one possible source of error.
> >>
> >>
> >> Werner
> >