Re: the hue of death: setting color property crashes application

[Andy Wingo]

Hi,

On Mon 28 Jul 2008 17:43, "gregory benison" <address@hidden> writes:

> In the latest guile-gnome, setting a "color" property can cause a crash:
>
> G_SLICE=debug-blocks guile-gnome-2
>> (use-modules (oop goops)(gnome gtk))
>> (set (make <gtk-color-button>) 'color "red")
> GSlice: MemChecker: attempt to release non-allocated block: 0x81a50a8 size=12
> Aborted
>
> Without 'debug-blocks', the crash is delayed, but will happen
> eventually because the heap is corrupted.
>
> The cause is a GdkColor* being allocated with g_new0(), but freed with
> g_slice_free1() rather than g_free():

Wow, that's a nasty one. Good catch. As you say it probably affects
GdkRectangle as well, and perhaps also GtkTreeIter.

Your patch is good, will apply.

Andy
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