[2/2] gdi32: Simplify font cache. (try 2)

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Sun Apr 1 05:17:45 CDT 2012


Kusanagi Kouichi <slash at ac.auone-net.jp> writes:

> On 2012-03-30 15:36:06 +0200, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>> I don't think that's a good idea. There are many things in the structure
>> that don't make sense to have in the registry.
>
> Font cache lacks some information. Of course we can fix that, but that
> might occur again. If we save and load full information, we never lose
> any information.
>
>> Also this won't work on 64-bit.
>
> Wine64 looks to work. Do you mean WoW64?

Yes. There are also potential security issues with the leaking of
pointer values or padding bytes. You really don't want to store such
internal structures in the registry.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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