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Bug 1403

Summary: Creating a window with GL and resizable flags may crash
Product: SDL Reporter: jordirovira <jordi>
Component: videoAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: major    
Priority: P2 CC: jordi
Version: HG 2.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   

Description jordirovira 2012-01-28 12:07:39 UTC 
It can be reproduced by taking the testgl2.c example and adding this at line 217

    state->window_flags |= SDL_WINDOW_RESIZABLE;

When a window is created with a resiable flag on linux (and i think osx) there are uninitialised variables being used which can try to create a window with strange sizes. This is according to valgrind, in the window creation function.

This sometimes crashes the window manager. And sometimes works fine.
Comment 1 jordirovira 2012-02-03 10:26:28 UTC 
I finally have time to look into this and I have found it:

in SDL_x11window around 520:

    /* Setup the normal size hints */
    if (!(window->flags & SDL_WINDOW_RESIZABLE)) {
        sizehints.min_width = sizehints.max_width = window->w;
        sizehints.min_height = sizehints.max_height = window->h;
        sizehints.flags = PMaxSize | PMinSize;
    }
    sizehints.x = window->x;
    sizehints.y = window->y;
    sizehints.flags |= USPosition;

the sizehints.flags member is not initizalised if it doesn't enter the conditional. It is as easy as setting it to zero before the conditional.
Comment 2 Sam Lantinga 2012-02-03 19:25:01 UTC 
Fixed, thanks!
http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/963497e37d34