Re: Crashes with latest gtk+2.0-2.2.2 package

[Art Haas <ahaas@airmail.net>]

Hi.

The crashes I'd seen in GTK I'd manage to pin down to the
glib/gunicollate.c file and the g_utf8_collate_key() function. This
function makes the following call:

  setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "");

I do not have LC_COLLATE defined in my environment, and this seems to be
the key. I'd thought the bug was in the glibc wcsxfrm() function because
I was seeing memory corruption in it, and had a test case that
demonstrated this. An exchange of e-mails with glibc developers showed
that if I run my test case with LC_COLLATE defined in my environment the
memory corruption goes away, and the glibc library works as promised.

I am curious now to know if people who have not been seeing crashes have
LC_COLLATE defined in their environment and what it is defined as. Is
this variable, and other LC_* variables for that matter, something that
should be defined always?

Art Haas

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