[AD] [ alleg-Bugs-2951650 ] sanity checks for allegro-4.9.9.1 API

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Bugs item #2951650, was opened at 2010-02-14 21:56
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Category: Linux
Group: 4.9
Status: Open
Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Andrey Ponomarenko (andrey-moscow)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: sanity checks for allegro-4.9.9.1 API

Initial Comment:
Hello,
I have performed some sanity checks of the library API and have found that it is not 100% safe. I have used API-Sanity-Autotest tool and have detected segfaults in the 122/408 functions (30%). Test results are in the attachment. See "Received signal SEGV" section of the report.

Environment: Mandriva 2009.1, KDE-4.2, x86, allegro-4.9.9.1

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Comment By: Andrey Ponomarenko (andrey-moscow)
Date: 2010-02-15 00:11

Message:
Test results have been updated. Added preamble call of al_install_system()
function to all test cases.

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Comment By: Elias Pschernig (elias)
Date: 2010-02-14 23:21

Message:
Functions are supposed to crash when called before al_install_system().

That was an early design decision - the mailing list would be a better
place to discuss changing this.

However maybe you can make the test generator create somewhat more
meaningful tests? E.g. calling al_install_system() before using an Allegro
function. Or creating a display before calling a function which requires an
active display. Or if you wait on a condition variable, actually have the
condition change somewhere.


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