DDD 3.3.9 (amd64-portbld-freebsd5.3) gets `Abort trap' signal

[Bradford Castalia]

This problem occurred immediately after building ddd from source in the
FreeBSD ports tree. There were many compiler warning messages warning
about pointer-integer casts; e.g.:

SourceView.C:5546: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size

This is typical when source code developed for a 32-bit environment is
ported to a 64-bit environment. In fact, I was using ddd in the hopes
that it would help me pin down the source of the same kind of problem
in another tool (nedit) that I want to use on this new architecture.
The ddd process was able to execute - displaying its splash screen -
but immediately got lost (top showed it was busy chasing after phantoms)
and then produced this error message (4 times)

ddd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense

before I sent it a kill -HUP signal and it generated its final error
message. The ~/.ddd/log file contained:

GNU DDD 3.3.9 (amd64-portbld-freebsd5.3)
Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.
Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Universität Passau, Germany.
Copyright (C) 2001 Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.
Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Compiled with GCC 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728
Requires X11R6, Xt11R6, Motif 2.1 (GNU/LessTif Version 2.1 Release 0.93.36)
Includes XPM 3.4.11, Athena Panner (7000002L), DDD core
Built 2004-10-08 by Charlie  <address@hidden>.
$  ddd
+  /bin/sh -c 'exec gdb -q -fullname'
!  Abort trap

I hope that ddd can be ported to the 64-bit environment without too much
trouble. Please let me know if I can be of assistance as a test site.

Thnx,

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Bradford Castalia                                 Senior Systems Analyst
Planetary Image Research Laboratory                University of Arizona

"Build an image in your mind, fit yourself into it."