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author | Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade <pcpa@mandriva.com.br> | 2008-07-11 17:21:18 -0300 |
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committer | Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade <pcpa@mandriva.com.br> | 2008-07-11 17:21:18 -0300 |
commit | 43cb3d388eae5a814ac4f36edca5780a6ea4934f (patch) | |
tree | 0e197d83dd351890658b856d0809b4ef3ab4c54c /man | |
parent | 0b6058db1ce978f17d6eb99f5b253b813a133294 (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".
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r-- | man/Xaw.man | 11 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man/Xaw.man b/man/Xaw.man index 288da22..a142595 100644 --- a/man/Xaw.man +++ 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, |