[Geany-Devel] On document pointer recycling

Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven at xxxxx
Mon Oct 28 14:12:46 UTC 2013


On 27/10/2013 13:11, Thomas Martitz wrote:
>> My concern is that we might not find all the code that assumes
>> documents aren't freed. Some code might not be updated and would
>> access the wrong memory. I'm not certain, but I think there may be
>> some code that retains pointers without checking is_valid. Maybe I'm
>> being over-cautious.
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> If that would be the case it is buggy now and will be buggy afterwards.

So you don't distinguish between different levels of buggy? I.e. not 
working correctly vs crashing intermittently?


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