From cdc1346612ab5dca28fcc63e6437fb1822790290 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: LaurentGom <LaurentGom@4e206d99-4929-0410-ac5d-dfc041789085>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:31:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] FS#152 - Fix crash with the default font at global exit on
 Windows

git-svn-id: https://sfml.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sfml/trunk@1401 4e206d99-4929-0410-ac5d-dfc041789085
---
 src/SFML/Graphics/Font.cpp | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/SFML/Graphics/Font.cpp b/src/SFML/Graphics/Font.cpp
index df2e5633e..36c4c2805 100644
--- a/src/SFML/Graphics/Font.cpp
+++ b/src/SFML/Graphics/Font.cpp
@@ -158,14 +158,28 @@ const Image& Font::GetImage() const
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 const Font& Font::GetDefaultFont()
 {
-    static Font       DefaultFont;
-    static bool       DefaultFontLoaded = false;
+#if defined(SFML_SYSTEM_WINDOWS) && defined(SFML_DYNAMIC)
+
+    // On Windows dynamic build, the default font causes a crash at global exit.
+    // This is a temporary workaround that turns the crash into a memory leak.
+    // Note that this bug doesn't exist anymore in SFML 2.
+    static Font* DefaultFontPtr = new Font;
+    Font& DefaultFont = *DefaultFontPtr;
+
+#else
+
+    static Font DefaultFont;
+
+#endif
+
+    // Get the raw data of the Arial font file into an array, so that we can load it into the font
     static const char DefaultFontData[] =
     {
         #include <SFML/Graphics/Arial.hpp>
     };
 
     // Load the default font on first call
+    static bool DefaultFontLoaded = false;
     if (!DefaultFontLoaded)
     {
         DefaultFont.LoadFromMemory(DefaultFontData, sizeof(DefaultFontData), 30);