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27.0.50; Crash on Cygwin

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Message #47 received at 35204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: Alex Gramiak <agrambot <at> gmail.com>, "Basil L. Contovounesios"
 <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: "yamaoka <at> jpl.org" <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>,
 "35204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <35204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#35204: 27.0.50; Crash on Cygwin
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 02:15:00 +0000

On 4/13/2019 6:50 PM, Alex Gramiak wrote:
> "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> writes:
>> I think the missing clue is in bug#35259: gdk_monitor_get_model may
>> return NULL, which g_strdup gladly accepts, but xstrdup does not.
>>
>> https://debbugs.gnu.org/35259
> 
> Yeah, this is it. I suppose the reason why it wasn't reported before is
> that it depends on GTK not being able to grab your monitor name, which
> is hardware-dependent. I must have assumed that using g_strdup meant
> that I didn't need to check for NULL.
> 
> It should be fixed with commit 7308c2edf, so please test again. Sorry
> for the inconvenience.

Yes, that fixes it for me.

Thanks.

Ken

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