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Re: [FC] [dfsee-support] DFSee 9.05 immediately exits

Felix Miata
Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:33:57 -0800

On 2008/01/04 10:07 (GMT+0100) Jan van Wijk apparently typed:

> On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:57:30 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

>>http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/dfsee/exitbug2.txt
>>http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/dfsee/popuplog2.txt

> OK, that confirms that the 'exit' is a trap, and seems to be
> caused by corrupted memory somewhere (heap corruption).

> Unfortunately it does not show who/where corrupts it :-(

> Since one of the changes in 9.05 deals with calculating-geometry,
> and that allocates memory too, I would like to see if that is
> the problem area here. Could you try the following:

>       dfsos2  -geocalc-

> So that is a minus sign at the begin AND end of the switch!
> This will disable that changed code, so I would be very
> interested to hear if it still traps then ...

No. O_O

> You can test that with the original 9.05 (or with that 9.06).

DFSOS2.EXE 9.05 run straight from a command prompt, no trap. Run from a
command prompt window by switching to a temp directory containing FC.EXE,
then starting FC.EXE, then switching to the directory containing it and
starting DFSOS2.EXE, no trap. Run by first starting FC.EXE from its home
directory, which contains FC.INI, then switching to the directory containing
it and starting DFSOS2.EXE, trap! Conclusion, something in FC.INI causes an
environmental problem for DFSOS2.EXE 9.05. :-(

This is the FC.INI in the home of FC.EXE v2.20:
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/fc-ini-old
This is the FC.INI in the home of FC.EXE v2.30 6 July 2007 & 10 Dec 2007:
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/fc.ini

First copying the latter ini file to the v2.20 home dir produces same result,
though a startup error message from FC.EXE.
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