Hi,
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 08:25:55PM +0100, Christoph Reichenbach wrote:
> > > Perhaps the automake system could be altered to allow for us to use
> > > dmalloc and set up the #defines and -ldmalloc correctly? (I have very
> > > little clue on how to set up autoconf..)
> >
> > That shouldn't be too much work unless they do something unexpected; I'll
> > have a look at it ASAP.
>
> AC_ARG_WITH(dmalloc,
> [ --with-dmalloc link aginst the dmalloc library],
> [LIBS="$LIBS -ldmalloc"],
> [])
>
> (in configure.in) seems to link in everything properly.
Looks like a good start!
> I still want
> it to add DMALLOC to DEFS, but I'm having problems with that. I've
> altered a couple of the include files to check for DMALLOC and include
> dmalloc.h as needed.. but unless I can get that to get pushed into the
> DEFS... argh.
Use AC_DEFINE(DMALLOC) to do that.
Wait, you already figured out something even more simple than that ;-)
It'd also be nice to have the various dmalloc functions callable from the
console...
> But there's a lot of funky stuff going on in the memory side of things.
> You should see the dmalloc output..
/me shudders
Well, we *do* have a few more malloc()s and free()s going on since the new
graphics subsystem was merged in.
Looks like this will become a pretty interesting week...
> > > 3) Bumping the interpreter version down messes up teh Sierra menu, which
> > > looses its background. the onters are fine.
> >
> > Could you send a screenshot of this, please? That really shouldn't
> > happen...
> > (via private e-mail)
>
> It's also happening in hoyle's volume 1, on both the sierra and hoyle
> file menus.
>
> I end up with a lot of these messages:
> GFX-debug: operations.c, gfxop_draw_box() L1127:Attempt to draw box with size
>-2136178846x20
That's the clue, actually. Unfortunately, it's not possible to enter the
command console when the menu is open; I just committed a very small hack
that dumps the visual when you press Ctrl-Grave in the menu.
> I'll have a screenshot for you as soon as I figure out how to grab a
> screenshot in X..
Thanks anyway :-)
> > Does Chris know about this yet?
>
> No, becuase I found this out about 30 minutes ago. :)
Could you tell him, please? I'm not sure if he reads all the messages on
this list...
llap,
Christoph
