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Re: [Devel] Bug in FT New Memory Face?
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Devel] Bug in FT New Memory Face? |
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Sat, 16 Jun 2001 13:46:36 +0200 (CEST) |
> > I think it was my fault to free the memory for the font file after
> > the call of FT_New_Memory_Face(). I thought this was safe because
> > the documentation for FreeType 2 does not mention that
> > FT_New_Memory_Face possesses the memory for the font file. Please
> > correct me if I am wrong.
> >
> Indeed, the font data that is fed to FT_New_Memory_Face can be
> located in ROM, or coming from a memory-mapped file, so there is no
> way to make FT2 "own" this piece of memory.
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> This means you need to make the memory block "live" until the
> corresponding call to FT_Done_Face !
David, please add this to the docs to clarify the issue.
Werner