Re: Interesting problem with GtkTreeView

[Dimitar Haralanov <voidtrance comcast net>]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:48:32 +0000
Tim MÃller <zen18864 zen co uk> wrote:

> Aren't there -dbg packages for your distro which get installed into
> /usr/lib/ debug, so that you just have to do export
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug in bash before running your program?
> (libgtk2.0-dbg on debian)
        Yeah, see, that would have been too easy!! Unfortunately, Mandrake does
not provide such libraries and I can't seem to find them on the various
rpm sites.

> I've seen similar errors twice so far, and both gdb and valgrind were
> utterly useless finding the problem (you did run your program through
> valgrind, didn't you?) If I got a stack trace at all, it would always
> indicate some gtk/glib functions somewhere, surrounded by plenty of
> '???'.
        
        That is pretty much what I am seeing too...
 
> Both times the problem turned out to be a bug in my code where

        I don't doubt that it is a problem with my code somewhere, but it would
help being able to see where and why does the gtk function crash.

> I returned inconsistent information from custom sort functions - that
> would make the sort algorithms smash the stack badly (because it
> accessed array[n] where n<0 due to the inconsistent return values of
> my compare function). I'd be surprised if that was the cause for your
> problems as well, but it's at least something to check ;-)

        You, are right, I am not doing sorts so I doubt it is that... :)

        Thanx for the help. Now, I at least have a lead by trying to find the
debug packages...

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