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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ObjectType.3 | 4 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2002-08-16 Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> + * doc/ObjectType.3: Added note on the root cause of this problem + to the documentation, since it is possible for user code to + trigger this sort of behaviour too. + * generic/tclIOUtil.c (SetFsPathFromAny): Objects should only have their old representation deleted when we know that we are about to install a new one. This stops a weird TclX bug under Linux with diff --git a/doc/ObjectType.3 b/doc/ObjectType.3 index 17ce609..2f1285b 100644 --- a/doc/ObjectType.3 +++ b/doc/ObjectType.3 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" -'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: ObjectType.3,v 1.6 2002/02/26 02:22:20 hobbs Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: ObjectType.3,v 1.7 2002/08/16 13:45:36 dkf Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH Tcl_ObjType 3 8.0 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures" @@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ if this succeeds, stores the integer in \fIobjPtr\fR's internal representation and sets \fIobjPtr\fR's \fItypePtr\fR member to point to the integer type's Tcl_ObjType structure. +Do not release \fIobjPtr\fR's old internal representation unless you +replace it with a new one or reset the \fItypePtr\fR member to NULL. .PP The \fIupdateStringProc\fR member contains the address of a function called to create a valid string representation |