Simply compiling with gcc 2.95.1 will point out a lot of problems, just look at
the warnings :)


On 24-Nov-99 at 17:15, David L. Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have not started looking too much at the Motif code, but I have 
> noticed that just with "X" functions that a lot of them are written 
> just plain wrong. I think this is going to take a lot of time to work 
> through all the debugging and code. I know that someone had mentioned 
> running Purify on the code and I have suggested we run other tools on 
> the code and get all the bad stuff fixed.
> 
> If you're wondering what kinds of things I'm looking at is that 
> XAllocColors was called with NULL as the argument for planes. Planes 
> is actually an integer that should be gotten by using the 
> DisplayPlanes() function. As I work through the code, if there is 
> someone with tools that would like to run them on files, feel free to 
> do a few files at a time and send me the output. I'm currently trying 
> to work on some of the bigger files in the exec.
> 
> David
> 
> >I am noticing different behavior of dxui, and builder executables
> >compiled with OSF/MOTIF 1.2 and OSF/MOTIF 2.1.2 on Windows.
> >For example, if compiled with OSF/MOTIF 2.1.2, directory browsing
> >does not work... opening a big *.net file on return dxexec.exe bombs
> >and dxui often does segfault.
> >
> >With OSF/MOTIF 1.2 it is more or less behaves.
> >
> >Could there be some incompability problems with MOTIF 2.1.x?
> >
> >Suhaib
> >
> >
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> David L. Thompson                          The University of Montana
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