wxFontFamily wxNativeFontInfo::GetFamily() const
{
wxFontFamily ret = wxFONTFAMILY_DEFAULT;
- char *family_text = g_ascii_strdown( pango_font_description_get_family( description ), -1 );
+ // note: not passing -1 as the 2nd parameter to g_ascii_strdown to work
+ // around a bug in the 64-bit glib shipped with solaris 10, -1 causes it
+ // to try to allocate 2^32 bytes.
+ const char *family_name = pango_font_description_get_family( description );
+ char *family_text = g_ascii_strdown( family_name, family_name ? strlen( family_name ) : 0 );
// Check for some common fonts, to salvage what we can from the current win32 centric wxFont API:
if (strncmp( family_text, "monospace", 9 ) == 0)
ret = wxFONTFAMILY_TELETYPE; // begins with "Monospace"