Bug with Font_ReadDefn

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 31 Jul 2003, in message <8ed0cb1a4c.christian at venice.lab>,
Christian Ludlam <chris at recoil.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The DefMod file for Font_ReadDefn completely ignores R1, but it's used to
> hold a buffer for the font name. Note that there's no way to tell the Font
> Manager that you don't want this name returned, and worse - it will happily
> trash your processor vectors etc if passed a bad pointer. Pretty daft API
> if you ask me.
> 
OK, thanks; I've put it on the list...

> I remember also a discussion on this list a while ago about
> Font_ReadFontMetrics being incorrect (because the PRMs were incorrect) -
> has this been fixed?
> 
Yes, V 6.40, some 9 months ago ;-). See ChangeLog.

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