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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:20:45 +0200
From: Richard Hickling <hicklinr AT mcd DOT alcatel DOT be>
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To: Mark Hindley <mh15 AT st-andrews DOT ac DOT uk>
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        "cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>,
        "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi AT inspirepharm DOT com>
Subject: Re: DDD 3.1.4 (i586-pc-cygwin) gets `Segmentation fault' signal
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I have forwarded this to the cygwin list (and to Suhaib Siddiqi) since it is
relevent to a recent discussion about DDD.

> I have actually sorted this one out. The seg fault happened with both MIX
> and Exceed. I recompiled without optimisation and all was fine. I don't know
> what is wrong with egcs optimisation routines.
>
> I have also sorted out the other bug I had notified to the newsgroup - DDD
> would start fine the first time, but whenever .ddd/init already existed DDD
> tried but failed to start gdb.
>
> I have cured this by changing the call to GetFileDatabase() to
> XrmGetFileDatabase() in ddd.c at lines 1789 (start) and 1860 (restart). I
> haven't yet spotted what is wrong with the supplied GetFileDatabase()
> routine. An astonishing side effect of this patch is that DDD will now run
> on MIX! Something which I think we are all agreed it would not do before,
> although it looks pretty tatty on it.
>
> There is still 1 outstanding issue: missing Glyphs in the source display.
> That is this weekend's work!
>
> Let me know if this is any use. Have you any ideas about the Glyphs?


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