crasher in Qt

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:18:31 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Monday, April 29, 2013 16:46:12 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > Current tip of Qt5's dev branch crashes with Plasma Frameworks, hitting
> > an 
> > ASSERT in qquicktextedit.cpp. I've filed a bug against Qt, so it's on the 
> > radar of those who are hopefully able to fix it.
> >
> > In the meantime, if you're working on plasma-framework, move
> > qt5/qtdeclarative  and git checkout 7148a79775e31eb, make, make install to
> > avoid the crash.
> >
> > The corresponding upstream bug report can be found at:
> > https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-30925
> 
> Quick update:
> 
> The crash still happens with the current dev branch. On the upside, it has
> a  test case now and is prioritized "critical" for 5.1, so from a
> bureaucratic point of view, it will hopefully get fixed. (I've looked at
> the patch introducing it, but didn't get very far -- it's a 3000+ LOC
> monster which optimizes all kinds of aspects in qquicktextedit.cpp. It's
> also not easily reversible on top of dev's HEAD. For now, I've disabled our
> usage of TextArea in the plasma2 test code, which let's it at least not
> crash. Will be re- enabled once the Qt bug is fixed -- I'll keep an eye on
> that.

Another update, with good news, I suppose: With a recent build of qt.git[dev], 
I don't see this crasher anymore, so it seems fixed.

I've put the code exercising this back in.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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