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authorPaulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade <pcpa@mandriva.com.br>2008-07-11 17:21:18 -0300
committerPaulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade <pcpa@mandriva.com.br>2008-07-11 17:21:18 -0300
commit43cb3d388eae5a814ac4f36edca5780a6ea4934f (patch)
tree0e197d83dd351890658b856d0809b4ef3ab4c54c /man
parent0b6058db1ce978f17d6eb99f5b253b813a133294 (diff)
Remove almost 10 year old notice about Xaw development from man page.
Correct a problem when deleting text portions that may lead to a crash due to accessing released memory; in most cases it would crash in AsciiSink.c:AsciiPreparePaint() when calling XtMalloc() with a negative value. The problem was due to not properly removing/updating XawTextEntity objects. One case that can cause the problem to happen is with patch files with syntax highlight, and sequentially selecting a deleting them. At one point attempt to remove the "first" XawTextAnchor, and also incorrectly update it's offset value to a negative value. The problem is not easy to reproduce as it requires a file with a special pattern (in this case the syntax highlight used for patch) and it would fail after removing all "entities" of the second "anchor".
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diff --git a/man/Xaw.man b/man/Xaw.man
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+++ b/man/Xaw.man
@@ -613,17 +613,6 @@ to it. The new resource is:
Specifies the name of the popup widget to be popped up when the pointer is
over the menu entry, or NULL. Note that the named menu must be a child of
the popup parent of the smeBSBObject.
-.SH RESTRICTIONS
-.B Xaw
-is actively being developed. Programs intending to be fully compatible
-with future releases of the Xaw library should use only the public
-interfaces. While widget subclassification is not a bad thing, and
-sometimes an encouraged programming practice, programs that access private
-data structures may have problems with newer releases in the current stage
-of
-.I Xaw
-development. Efforts are being made to avoid such problems and to guarantee
-that newer releases will be source and binary compatible.
.SH AUTHORS
The original X Consortium version of the Athena Widget Set and its
documentation were the work of many people, including Chris D. Peterson,