On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently committed a fix (courtesy of Malte Marquarding) for segfaults
> in the Tk backend.  It seems it was converting a string of digits to a
> "signed long" and then casting to a pointer.  Unfortunately, it really
> needs to be an "unsigned long" or overflow may occur.  Since the C
> standard library doesn't provide a version of "atol" for "unsigned
> long", Malte's solution was to use C++ stringstreams.  There's a good
> chance that is portable, but it should probably be tested on Visual
> Studio for good measure.  Would any of you kind Windows folks be willing
> to compile SVN trunk and open a plot with the TkAgg backend to verify this?

Charlie -- as far as I know you are the only developer who has win32
setup to build from svn.  Can you test this when you get a chance?

Thanks,
JDH

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