Re: [Chicken-users] more: news from the valgrind front - another test case

2011-10-08 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
Hi all, finally I've been able squash that one! Turns out to be a one line change to chicken.h . Otherwise valgrind is right to complain. (It shut up now too.) The missing cast would allow the compiler to write only sizeof(char). This turned out to be most often ok (whenever the rest of the

Re: [Chicken-users] Help building latest sources

2011-10-08 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Did you build a boot chicken for bootstrapping? Note that you will need a chicken installed for this. $ gmake PLATFORM=bsd boot-chicken $ gmake PLATFORM=bsd CHICKEN=./chicken-boot $ gmake PLATFORM=bsd install I have put up a little tutorial on the wiki for this here

Re: [Chicken-users] A fix for parallel build (gmake -j)

2011-10-08 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Mario Domenech Goulart mario.goul...@gmail.com wrote: Should I try to adopt the patch from ticket 526 to the latest sources and repeat the test? I will if this will push the things forward (this will happen tomorrow though). I'd suggest the patch from ticket 526, since it's been tested a

Re: [Chicken-users] more: news from the valgrind front - another test case

2011-10-08 Thread Alan Post
This came to my mail reader manged, I'm not sure I'm reading it correctly. I don't think the line breaks were properly preserved. If I'm reading it correctly, this pattern could well be repeated incorrectly in other #define lines nearby--I'd want to check C_unfix, for instance, just looking at

Re: [Chicken-users] more: news from the valgrind front - another test case

2011-10-08 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
On Oct 8 2011, Alan Post wrote: This came to my mail reader manged, I'm not sure I'm reading it correctly. I don't think the line breaks were properly preserved. If I'm reading it correctly, this pattern could well be repeated incorrectly in other #define lines nearby--I'd want to check

[Chicken-users] [Patch] Cairo's ffi may be wrong...

2011-10-08 Thread Christian Kellermann
Hi, I have toyed around with the cairo egg and experimented with text flow given a box with a specified size. In the result of this I have been calling the cairo-text-extents procedures a lot which resulted in either segmentation faults or out of memory panics. This procedure creates a u8-vector