Re: widl: The offset to the pointer layout in complex structures must be positive so add an assert and fix the format string.

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Rob Shearman"  writes:
> Otherwise we could generate an incorrect format string and crash in a
> weird way at runtime instead.

Looks like the assert works ;)

../../tools/widl/widl -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include  -D__WINESRC__ -D_OLEAUT32_ -DCOM_NO_WINDOWS_H  -p -P oleaut32_oaidl_p.c oleaut32_oaidl.idl
widl: typegen.c:1856: write_struct_tfs: Assertion `absoff >= *tfsoff' failed.
make[2]: *** [oleaut32_oaidl_p.c] Aborted

widl: The offset to the pointer layout in complex structures must be positive so add an assert and fix the format string.

[Rob Shearman]

2008/6/23 Alexandre Julliard :
> "Rob Shearman"  writes:
> > Otherwise we could generate an incorrect format string and crash in a
> > weird way at runtime instead.
>
> Looks like the assert works ;)

:-)
> ../../tools/widl/widl -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include  -D__WINESRC__ -D_OLEAUT32_ -DCOM_NO_WINDOWS_H  -p -P oleaut32_oaidl_p.c oleaut32_oaidl.idl
> widl: typegen.c:1856: write_struct_tfs: Assertion `absoff >= *tfsoff' failed.
> make[2]: *** [oleaut32_oaidl_p.c] Aborted

I have a longer-term plan to fix this that will involve over-hauling
the way format strings are written, but this is going to have to wait
until after my pending widl patches go in otherwise there will likely
be some conflicts.