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Sat Jan 19 02:25:30 2013: Request 73276 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by MDOOTSON
Queue: Wx
Subject: Wx::WindowUpdateLocker->new(undef) segfaults perl
Broken in: 0.9903
Severity: Important
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: adamk@cpan.org
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73276 >
I'll leave this ticket open. Wx is open to many failures like below if
incorrect params are passed. It might be a good thing if we had some
sort of generic checking code in place possibly created as part of XSpp.
On Thu Dec 15 06:21:53 2011, ADAMK wrote:
> Calling Wx::WindowUpdateLocker->new(undef) causes Perl to segfault.
>
> This can easily occur if you are doing a lot of update locking
> throughout a program and you overlook a single case where the clean up
> order is different to what you expect, or you lock something not
> instantiated yet.
>
> Please add a check to the method so that Perl at least throws an
> ordinary die rather than the segfault.