Re: possible deadlock on invalid UTF-8 data

From: Jon Trowbridge <trow ximian com>
To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
Cc: Daniel Elstner <daniel elstner gmx net>, gtk-devel-list <gtk-devel-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: possible deadlock on invalid UTF-8 data
Date: 27 Nov 2001 17:19:24 -0600

On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 14:54, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> On the other hand, the advantage of the endless loop (vs. reading
> invalid memory) is that the bug is immediately evident, and pretty
> easy to track down.

Wouldn't it be even more immediately evident and even easier to track
down if it returned NULL or g_assert-ed or g_error-ed or something.

It seems pathological for a library to signal an error by deadlocking.

-JT

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