[vlc-devel] Fix Freetype crash when compiling with GCC 4.1+

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

Fixed!

Pierre

On Feb 17, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Bernie Purcell wrote:

> I've made a change to the fontconfig patch now that should address the
> issue if you refresh from svn and rebuild the fontconfig contrib  
> folder.
> As a general rule fixes don't normally entail turning off a module  
> that
> is causing trouble, especially if the problem is only on one
> platform. ;-)
>
> Bitmap
> On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 02:20 +0100, Sebastian Jenny wrote:
>> Hi there!
>>
>> This diff should fix the unnerving crash on freetype_plugin.dll at  
>> start of
>> VLC for Windows. As you can see, I just deleted the implementation of
>> fontconfig. I didn't bother (nor do I have the time to) cleanup now  
>> obsolete
>> code in the files that use fontconfig, if existing (e.g. freetype.c).
>>
>> Suprisingly, this doesn't seem to break functionality. I tested  
>> Subtitle
>> colour and size. Font wouldn't work, but that is also the case for  
>> every
>> version built with GCC 3.4.5 (where the resulting freetype_plugin.dll
>> wouldn't crash) and even official 0.8.6.d. Also I think it's better  
>> to have
>> non-crashing subtitle support without ability to change fonts  
>> rather than
>> having no subtitles at all.
>>
>> If anyone feels he has to properly fix it, this entry in the  
>> mailing list
>> seems to be a good start as it's obviously related to the current  
>> problem:
>> http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2007-October/035309.html
>>
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