Re: GtkTextBuffer crash

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 09:31 -0800, mikecorn wrote:
> On Feb 28 I posted a message about GtkTextBuffer crashing from too much data.
> This was wrong. The crash comes from unusual text that was being inserted
> into the buffer.
> 
> In particular, the following text, if used in gtk_text_buffer_insert_text(),
> will cause a crash: "file:%2F%2F%2Fhome.xml". This is the name of a file
> found in /home/userxxx/.nautilus/metafiles (my app was listing a bunch of
> file names in a text window).
> 
> Can anyone explain why this text crashes the function, and what I should do
> to avoid this?

I'd suggest testing your code with valgrind for memory corruption
elsewhere. While virtually any bug is *possible* the above seems a
little improbable.

If it is happening, then you need to create a minimal test case, and put
it in bugzilla. Providing the backtrace would also be useful in case
other people can't reproduce the problem using your test case.

						Owen