[Pixman] [PATCH] Fix server crash in pixman (to be discussed)

[Matthias Hopf]

On Mar 24, 10 13:25:13 +0200, Jonathan Morton wrote:
> Drawing a string containing spaces but also other characters would
> result in a non-degenerate region, presumably.  So the bug might be
> triggered by a string containing only a space.

Sounds reasonable.

> It may be appropriate to use a "belt and braces" approach here - prevent
> the degenerate regions from being created, *and* have the PIXREGION_NIL
> macro handle them.

Also sounds reasonable. Glyphs are apparently only rendered in a few
places in the Xserver, so this should be doable. Exa apparently already
handles this correctly.

Matthias

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