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Bug 1609

Summary: XSizeHints shouldn't be statically allocated
Product: SDL Reporter: Edward Rudd <urkle>
Component: videoAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: minor    
Priority: P2 CC: icculus
Version: HG 2.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Attachments: patch to allocate Hint structures per Xlib docs.

Description Edward Rudd 2012-09-25 16:20:02 UTC 
According to the X documentation the XSizeHints structure should not be statically allocated (as it is in X11_CreateWindow), but rather dynamically allocated using the XAllocSizeHints() method.

http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/libX11/specs/libX11/libX11.html#Setting_and_Reading_the_WM_NORMAL_HINTS_Property
Comment 1 Edward Rudd 2012-09-25 19:11:03 UTC 
Created attachment 957 [details]
patch to allocate Hint structures per Xlib docs.
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2012-09-26 11:11:29 UTC 
This patch is now hg changeset 5e09ac1aba80, thanks!

--ryan.