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Re: [pygame] BUG: segfault when blitting surface to itself
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Marcus von Appen <mva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there some case where blitting a surface on itself might be desired
> or necessary? If not, I'll add a simple check that tests the passed
> surface on equality and let blit() throw an exception, if both are the
> same.
>
That sounds great. This has come up multiple times on the list over
the years, and it would be good if it didn't. As a cross-platform
library, pygame should really be stopping users from doing things on
one platform that can't work on other platforms, to encourage writing
portable code.