Re: Bug in String Height

[Paolo Molaro <lupus ximian com>]

On 05/16/01 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Just my uneducated opinion but I think that from the definition of C
> SvPv(text, tlen) _must_ be evaluated before gdk_text_height is called. If
> your compiler does not do that then it is buggy, and it is not the fault
> of the Perl/Gtk+ bindings.
>
> Whether SvPv(text, tlen) is evaluated before "ix==1?len:tlen" or not is
> left to the discretion of the compiler, but otherwise arguments to
> functions are processed before the functions themselves.

It's a bug in the binding: SvPv(text, tlen) is a macro that _sets_
tlen, but as you point out the execution order is undefined.
Fixed in cvs.

lupus

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