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Subject:    Re: Review Request: Change dynamic_cast in KoPAOdfSaveHelper constructor
From:       "Thomas Zander" <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2012-03-13 19:12:35
Message-ID: 20120313191235.9045.62242 () vidsolbach ! de
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Ship it!


The change looks correct. =


The change made by me some time ago (2nd christmas day 2011) where there us=
ed to be a KoPAPageBase seems to me a likely cause of this bug, apologies f=
or not finding the unit test regression, and thanks for the fix!

- Thomas Zander


On March 13, 2012, 6:59 p.m., Robert Mathias Marmorstein wrote:
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> (Updated March 13, 2012, 6:59 p.m.)
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> Review request for KOffice.
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> Description
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> The TestPACopyPastePage unit test was failing with a segmentation fault (=
signal 11).  Debugging it in gdb showed that the cause was a null pointer f=
or the "page" variable in a loop through the master pages.  Tracing this ba=
ck, I discovered some odd code that seemed to be dynamic_casting a Page* to=
 a Page*.  I'm not sure that behaviour is even defined in the C++ standard,=
 but I'm pretty sure what we really want to do is cast to a MasterPage inst=
ead (and reverse the logic of the if statement).  So that's what this patch=
 does.  =

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> Diffs
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>   libs/kopageapp/KoPAOdfPageSaveHelper.cpp 1a8f965 =

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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104263/diff/
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> Testing
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> Code still compiles and runs and master pages work.  The TestPACopyPasteP=
age unit test now passes instead of failing and all other unit tests still =
pass (except the two that were failing already -- both related to layout pr=
oblems).
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> Thanks,
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> Robert Mathias Marmorstein
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 <p>Ship it!</p>



 <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: \
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correct. 

The change made by me some time ago (2nd christmas day 2011) where there used to be a \
KoPAPageBase seems to me a likely cause of this bug, apologies for not finding the \
unit test regression, and thanks for the fix!</pre>  <br />







<p>- Thomas</p>


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<div>Review request for KOffice.</div>
<div>By Robert Mathias Marmorstein.</div>


<p style="color: grey;"><i>Updated March 13, 2012, 6:59 p.m.</i></p>






<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description </h1>
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-moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: \
break-word;">The TestPACopyPastePage unit test was failing with a segmentation fault \
(signal 11).  Debugging it in gdb showed that the cause was a null pointer for the \
&quot;page&quot; variable in a loop through the master pages.  Tracing this back, I \
discovered some odd code that seemed to be dynamic_casting a Page* to a Page*.  \
I&#39;m not sure that behaviour is even defined in the C++ standard, but I&#39;m \
pretty sure what we really want to do is cast to a MasterPage instead (and reverse \
the logic of the if statement).  So that&#39;s what this patch does.  </pre>  </td>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Testing </h1>
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-moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: \
break-word;">Code still compiles and runs and master pages work.  The \
TestPACopyPastePage unit test now passes instead of failing and all other unit tests \
still pass (except the two that were failing already -- both related to layout \
problems).</pre>  </td>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Diffs</b> </h1>
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 <li>libs/kopageapp/KoPAOdfPageSaveHelper.cpp <span style="color: \
grey">(1a8f965)</span></li>

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<p><a href="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104263/diff/" style="margin-left: \
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