Re: thot lib bug (PictInfo, _AbstractBox)

This bug is fixed in the 3.1 version.
Thanks for the report.

> I think that I've found a bug in Amaya.
> 
> If I use Amaya to open a copy of the Html-3.2
> Reference Spec, it takes a couple of seconds
> to load, okay. 
> 
> But when I click on the scrollbar to scroll down,
> it freezes. 
> 
> I decided to limit the max processor time and run
> Amaya under GDB to see what was going on. This is
> what happened:
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> Program received signal SIGXCPU, CPU time limit
> exceeded.
> RedrawFilledBoxes (frame=1, xmin=0, xmax=566,
> ymin=258, ymax=516)
>         at ../../thotlib/view/frame.c:243
> 243                     yorg += imageDesc->PicHeight;
> (gdb) print yorg
> $1 = 0
> (gdb) print imageDesc->PicHeight
> $2 = 0
> (gdb) print ymin
> $3 = 258
> 
> 
> The following is the offending code in frame.c:
> --------------------------------------------------
>   imageDesc = (PictInfo *) pAb->AbPictBackground;
>   if (imageDesc)
>     {
>       xorg = pBox->BxXOrg + pBox->BxLMargin +
> pBox->BxLBorder + pBox->BxLPadding;
>       yorg = pBox->BxYOrg + pBox->BxTMargin +
> pBox->BxTBorder + pBox->BxTPadding;
>       /* check the visibility of the background image
> */
>       if (imageDesc->PicPresent == FillFrame)
>         {
>           while (xorg + imageDesc->PicWidth < xmin)
>             xorg += imageDesc->PicWidth;
>           xd = xorg;
>           width = width + xmin - xorg;
>           while (yorg + imageDesc->PicHeight < ymin)
> 243:            yorg += imageDesc->PicHeight;
>           yd = yorg + FrameTable[frame].FrTopMargin;
>           height = height + ymin - yorg;
>         }
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> At the top, you see that `pAb' is cast to a
> (PictInfo *) and assigned to `imageDesc.' Okay.
> 
> `imageDesc' is of type (PictInfo *)
> `pAb' is of type (PtrAbstractBox)
> 
> 
> But these two structures cannot be overlapped:
> --------------------------------------------------
> >From typemedia.h:
> 
> 
> /* Description of an abstract images of a document
> view */
> typedef struct _AbstractBox
> {
>   PtrElement      AbElement;    /* Corresponding
> element in the I.R. */
>   PtrBox          AbBox;        /* Box descriptor
> index */
>   PtrAbstractBox  AbEnclosing;  /* Linking towards the
> enclosing asbstr. box */
>   PtrAbstractBox  AbNext;       /* Linking towards the
> next sibling abstract box */
>   PtrAbstractBox  AbPrevious;   /* Linking towards the
> previous abstract box */
>   PtrAbstractBox  AbFirstEnclosed;    /* Linking
> towards the first child
>                                          abstract box
> */
>   PtrAbstractBox  AbNextRepeated;/* Linking towards
> the next repeated
>                                            abstract
> box (laid out??) */
>   PtrAbstractBox  AbPreviousRepeated; /* Linking
> towards the previous
>                                          repeated
> abstract box */
>   PtrPSchema      AbPSchema;    /* Presentation schema
> of the abstract box */
>   int             AbDocView;    /* Document view
> number */
>   PtrCopyDescr    AbCopyDescr;  /* Descriptor of the
> copied element if the
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> >From picture.h:
> 
> 
> typedef struct 
> {
>   int            PicXArea;
>   int            PicYArea;
>   int            PicWArea;
>   int            PicHArea;
>   int            PicWidth;
>   int            PicHeight;
>   PictureScaling PicPresent;
>   int            PicType;
>   CHAR_T*        PicFileName; 
>   Pixmap         PicPixmap;
>   int            PicNbColors;
>   int           *PicColors;
>   Pixmap         PicAlpha;
> # ifndef _WINDOWS
>   Pixmap         PicMask;
> # else  /* _WINDOWS */
>   int            bgRed;
>   int            bgGreen;
>   int            bgBlue;
> # endif /* _WINDOWS */
>   ThotBool       mapped;         /* Used for
> ExtraHandlers */
>   ThotBool       created;        /* Used for
> ExtraHandlers */
>   ThotWidget     wid;            /* Used for
> ExtraHandlers */
>   void*          pluginInstance; /* Used for
> ExtraHandlers */
> } PictInfo;
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> As you can see, they are very different structures. 
> 
> This sort of thing would have been caught from the
> get-go, were it not for the typecast. 
> 
> I don't know anything about the Thot library or 
> what the original author intended to do, but I do
> think
> that this demonstrates the danger of typecasts. :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
     Irene.

Received on Tuesday, 18 April 2000 09:40:03 UTC