Fix a use-after-free error in tickit_window_destroy() #6
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Hi Paul, I tracked a long-standing memory corruption issue with the Tickit-* Perl modules in
https://bugs.debian.org/1078154 down to this use after free.
The related crashes are not very deterministic, but valgrind flags the issue quite consistently, as seen with this test program:
which gives