That stupid Guppi bug

From: Havoc Pennington <rhp zirx pair com>
To: Ossama Othman <othman cs wustl edu>
cc: tpikonen pcu helsinki fi, guppi-list gnome org, vincent debian org, Richard Hult <rhult hem2 passagen se>, jrb redhat com, msf redhat com, miguel nuclecu unam mx, Kenneth Christqua <kenneth ripen dk>
Subject: That stupid Guppi bug
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 16:53:50 -0400 (EDT)


Hi,

OK - I finally managed to reproduce the Guppi segfault everyone was
reporting to me, and I hope make it go away. It turns out that it happens
on RH 6.0 and Debian unstable only. It will not happen (AFAIK) on Debian
slink or RH 5.2.

It looks like the problem was allocating a couple megs on the stack. In
src/guppidata.cc, change NPOINTS from 250000 to something smaller, and
things work fine. guppi still crashes gdb, but that appears to be
unrelated to guppi itself crashing.

I'll check in a real fix tomorrow from my work machine, I've mangled my
source tree here and don't want to download a new one over 28.8.
Tomorrow I'll also fix the conditional compilation with Bonobo.

Thanks to everyone that reported this!

Havoc

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