On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 12:37:14AM +0200, Nils Lohner wrote:
> 
> Hi guys...
> 
> I got a surprise today when running 2.4.3... it core dumped on me!!
> THis happens repeatably when running an application here at work.  The
> app is not necessarily well behaved, and uses openwindows libs etc.
> Still, a coredump shouldn't happen.  It appears to be on teh startup
> copyright splash window.
> 
> I've enclosed all the relevant info, and I can trace this if someone
> tells me what to look for.
> 
> Note that I'm not 100% sure that gcc 3.0.1 generates good code yet on
> solaris... I've got problems with mozilla and gimp so far.  Compilations
> are OK, core dumps on startup.
> 
> Apologies for the long mail...

Rather long and complete than short and without the important
information :-)

> #0  0x4ffb0 in setup_window_placement (tmp_win=0xae6a0, pstyle=0xffbeebb0)
>     at add_window.c:578
...
> 577         /* command line takes precedence over all */
> 578         MergeCmdLineResources(
> 579           &db, table, 4, client_argv[0], &client_argc, client_argv, True);
...
> (gdb) p client_argv[0]
> Cannot access memory at address 0x0

So, the client_argv array returned by XGetCommand was empty.  This
can easily be caught althogh I don't understand how this can
happen.  I'll commit a fix soon.  Please try it out and tell me
it it helps.

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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