qof_backend_init

[Neil Williams]

On Monday 03 January 2005 2:17 pm, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 12:14:31PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> > Lines 129+130 in qofbackend.c  are confusing me:
> >
> > 129    if (be->error_msg) g_free (be->error_msg);
> > 130    be->error_msg = NULL;
> >
> > I'm getting a segmentation fault because error_msg exists but is out of
> > bounds. Why would it exist before g_new had finished? Why is it checked?
> > Wouldn't any uninitialised value be out of range?
>
> g_new doesn't zero memory, g_new0 does.

Thanks. Sorted - I called be = g_new0( etc. and it's fine.

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