Bug 19258 – XtNewString abuse

Bug 19258 - XtNewString abuse

Summary:	XtNewString abuse

Reported:	2000-10-17 11:05 EDT by Tim Waugh
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:29 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-05-25 08:47:29 EDT
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Description Tim Waugh 2000-10-17 11:05:23 EDT

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 11:05:48 EDT

Created attachment 4270 [details]
Here's an untested patch.

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2002-05-13 20:54:16 EDT

This is fixed in Red Hat Linux 7.3 in XFree86 4.2.0, just confirmed.

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