Re: [ft-devel] Patch to fix the ttsubpix implementation

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 13-01-17 02:13 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
>> Guys, I'm not a hardcore C coder, and don't know about private RAM
>> allocation per-process, and how that's impacted by putting structs
>> inside of .c files instead of .h files.  Of course, I'm willing to
>> understand why that's the case, I just don't necessarily know some
>> of that stuff.  So, likely all code that I write is going to have
>> the potential of being implemented more efficiently by people with
>> more experience in coding.  I don't really want to burden you guys
>> with "babying" me through the best way to implement code, but if you
>> can nudge me in the right direction sometimes that would be helpful.

If you have some time to read, this is a good place to start:

  http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf

> Don't worry!  *Many* people are following the FreeType git repository,
> and only David (who currently doesn't follow regularly) has noticed
> it.  His background as a developer for embedded systems has sharpened
> his eyes for such glitches.  And thankfully he has some time again to
> contribute.

Werner, just don't rely too much on that.  For example, I check most commits
that go in, but when there's a big patchset, it's just not possible to
*quickly* verify it, so I guess most people skip.

behdad

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