Bug 19258 - XtNewString abuse
Summary: XtNewString abuse
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-10-17 15:05 UTC by Tim Waugh
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-05-25 12:47:29 UTC
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Here's an untested patch. (426 bytes, patch)
2000-10-17 15:05 UTC, Tim Waugh 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Tim Waugh 2000-10-17 15:05:23 UTC 
XtNewString is a macro and shouldn't be given an argument that can change
it's value on successive evaluations.  xmh has such an abuse in.
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2000-10-17 15:05:48 UTC 
Created attachment 4270 [details]
Here's an untested patch.
Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2002-05-14 00:54:16 UTC 
This is fixed in Red Hat Linux 7.3 in XFree86 4.2.0, just confirmed.
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