[cairo] [PATCH 2/4] scaled fonts: Use wide enough type for pointer arithmetic
Adrian Johnson
ajohnson at redneon.com
Sat Feb 20 22:49:11 UTC 2016
On 12/02/16 10:19, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11.02.2016 21:00, Uli Schlachter wrote:
>
>> Where is this cast back to a pointer that you talk about?
>
> There are two instances in cairo-scaled-font.c, in lines 480 and 2827.
> Both of them read
>
> scaled_font = (cairo_scaled_font_t *) page->cache_entry.hash;
>
> and the pointer is dereferenced afterwards.
>
> I agree with your assessment that this should really be a hash value
> only, and using the lower bits might work for that (although the
> bottommost bits are probably all zero due to alignment, so it is not a
> very good hash), but fixing that requires more changes.
>
> Simon
Attached is a patch to avoid storing the pointer in the hash value.
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