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[NEWS] Add par about Chris 'ickle' Wilson's error-handling improvements work

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Behdad Esfahbod 2007-06-07 12:22:20 -04:00
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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
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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>)
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