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@@ -18,6 +18,20 @@ introduce work queues for the xlib backend that deferred the destruction of the X resources until the next time the application directly operated on a xlib surface. +Improved error handling patchs +------------------------------ +Cairo has a fairly unique error-handling scheme that retains error +status with objects infected. This requires lots of internal paths +dealing with error returns and directing the error to the right +object and releasing resources correctly (like all good libraries do). +Chris Wilson previsouly stressed the memory allocation paths by +injecting memory allocations faults into cairo's performance test suite +and fixed all found issues. In this release he has done the same, plus +applying other static and dynamic stress tests on the main cairo test +suite and fixed a whole lot of other error-handling errors. We were +pleased to find that his work fixed a highly-dupped crasher in +gnome-about: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431990 + Release 1.4.6 (2007-05-01 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>) ========================================================= |