Reviewer needed - fix for PR1018: JVM fails due to SEGV during rendering some Unicode characters

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've created a fix for PR1018: JVM fails due to SEGV during
> > rendering
> > some Unicode characters.
> > This fix is based on OpenJDK7 sources and it's been successfully
> > tested against IcedTea6-head,
> > IcedTea6-1.11 and IcedTea6-1.10.
> > 
> 
> You say this is based on "OpenJDK7 sources".  What fix is this from
> and
> why is there no bug reference in this patch?

This appears to be a fragment of:

changeset:   3068:1d4340015b85
user:        srl
date:        Mon Dec 06 16:10:01 2010 -0800
summary:     6886358: layout code update

Why not apply the whole fix?  Including chunks like this makes things
untraceable and harder to upstream.

> 
> > Can anybody please review this fix?
> > 
> > Here's ChangeLog entry:
> > 
> > 2012-05-30  Pavel Tisnovsky  <ptisnovs at redhat.com>
> > 
> >         * patches/coverage-table.patch:
> >         PR1018: JVM fails due to SEGV during rendering some Unicode
> >         characters
> >         * Makefile.am: Updated.
> >         * NEWS: Mention bugfix.
> > 
> > (if this fix will be approved, I would like to backport it to
> > 6-1.10
> > and 6-1.11 too - the
> > patch is the same for all branches)
> > 
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Pavel
> > 
> > 
> > [Text Documents:coverage-table.patch]
> > 
> 
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