[Pidgin] #1813: I try to open Pidgin and the program crashes

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#1813: I try to open Pidgin and the program crashes
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  Reporter:  jdjmail       |       Owner:       
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  new  
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:       
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0.2
Resolution:                |    Keywords:       
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by jkczyz):

 Just a general comment.  It appears many of these access violations are
 caused by strlen in C:\WINNT\system32\msvcrt.dll, which in turn is called
 by GTK.  Assuming this is indeed the case, shouldn't Pidgin do some sort
 of sanity checking on any parameters that it passes to GTK functions?
 This seems like a worthwhile programming practice since the Pidgin
 developers have limited control over GTK code.  From a user's perspective,
 Pidgin shouldn't just crash for no apparent reason.  Adding some sort of
 exception recovery would be desirable.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/1813#comment:4>
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