[cairo] CAIRO_STATUS_NO_MEMORY when passing incorrect scaling

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Thu Jan 1 11:42:11 PST 2009


Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> Peter Clifton wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I noticed, as I was debugging some drawing code, that after a certain
>>> error in my code, all further cairo output was stopped.
>>>
>>> I tracked the problem down to an incorrect scale factor I was passing to
>>> cairo_scale(), I was in fact passing the X scale factor as 0. due to a
>>> corner case being hit at a certain zoom factor.
>> Yeah, that's a bug that we need to fix.  Scaling down to zero should not be an
>> error.
> 
> If anything, my invalid-size-error branch should change this to an
> invalid size error.  I agree that the error should be in the context...

The context already goes into CAIRO_STATUS_INVALID_MATRIX.  As I said in the
other mail, the NO_MEMORY is a side effect of how nil objects work internally
right now.

behdad

> Polo
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