Re: glib-tml-980819-0.patch

["Michael T. Smith" <michael csuite ns ca>]

On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> Hmm, what is lcc-win32 and where do I get it ?

It's Jacob Navia's free compiler, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/

> Yes, but isn't the problem here that g_log_default_handler should work
> even if stdio has been seriously damaged by lack of memory? Isn't
> that's why it uses straight system calls on Unix? (Or is it the case
> that if you are this seriously out of memory on Windows, something is
> screwed up and you will have to reboot anyway, so we could as well
> just try fprintf...:-))

I hadn't thought of that. But if you're that seriously out of memory on
Windows, yes, you'll have to reboot. ;) I don't think stdio is any
more/less vulnerable than AllocConsole, but I could be wrong.

However there are a few other problems with stdio: I can't remember the
specifics but for some reason printf doesn't work before/within main
window creation (at least with lcc-win32 and CRTDLL). Plus, g_debug is
probably writing to stderr anyway, so it should probably try to open a
messagebox instead of a console.

Personally I'd like to see GTK+ apps under Win32 not opening a console
window.

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