Excerpts from Nathan O's message of 2010-08-26 02:52:33 +0200: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Philipp Überbacher > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Excerpts from Christopher Brannon's message of 2010-08-25 20:12:38 +0200: > > > Philipp Überbacher <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > > > As it happens, this article about algoscore says that it does require > > > > either -O2 or -O3 as CFLAGS: > > > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/algoscore-music-numbers > > > > > > Sorry, but this doesn't seem plausible. > > > I did get some useful output from valgrind. > > > The invalid reads and writes are happening in src/nasal/hash.c, at line > > > 132, in the resize function. The malloc call in that function doesn't > > > seem to be allocating enough memory. The author is aligning his > > > pointers, and the malloc call doesn't account for the padding. > > > I added a fudge factor to malloc's size argument. > > > The patch is here: <http://pastebin.ca/1925235>. > > > > > > Unfortunately, I can't do much to test this program, but I can say that > > > it no longer crashes with a backtrace. > > > > > > -- Chris > > > > The strange thing here is that it didn't crash when it was built from > > ROX-filer, which I believe just executes AppRun, a simple shell script > > to compile algoscore. > > > > One thing that causes it to crash here is 'csound_test.as' in the > > examples folder. The midi_test.as example works fine though. > > -- > > Philipp > > > > -- > > "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu > > und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan > > > > Does anybody want to take over algoscore > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23577 ? I can't get it to work no > matter what I try, or delete the package. > > Thanks
What I do when there's an upstream bug is reporting it. Use the bugtracker or some other means to get in touch with the author. -- Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
