Re: [Devel] FIXED: KDE crashes, was: 2.4.3-3mdk and VIA

[Tom Kacvinsky]

I found out what I was playing "fandango on core".  It has to do with the psaux
functions not liking being passed pointers that are local in scope (for 
instance,
pointers that are defined in a function's stack space).  I fixed this by using a
handle (Macintosh programming parlance: a pointer to a pointer) and allocating
space for the dereferenced handle.

Anyway, once I did that (which fixed the core dumps), I did not see the problems
that Arnd reported.  Strange.  I will need to see a screen snapshot.

A new patch will be forthcoming.  I am glad I didn't commit right way!

Regards,

Tom

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:

> Unfortunately, I have now started core dumping elsewhere.  I don't think it is
> related to the changes I made.
>
> As for the other problem:  can you send me a screen snapshot?
>
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> > Tom wrote:
> > > would like a peer review of the code before I commit, though.  I
> > > want to make sure I am not introducing any new bugs. :)
> >
> > I just tried the patch and can also confirm that it no longer
> > segfaults. Unfortunately it breaks type 1 font loading for me,
> > so e.g. 'ftview 32 n021004l.pfa' now shows "  CCCCGHHJKKMMMMQQ..."
> > instead of "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR...". Kcharsel prints spaces instead
> > of the duplicated glyphs (A,B,D,I, ...).
> > The missing glyphs are different for other fonts, but all T1
> > fonts seem to be affected.
> > Tried with 2.0.2 and -current from last week (4.4.2001).
> >
>