[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       klyx
Subject:    Re: Bug report 1.0.0pre6
From:       Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes () inria ! fr>
Date:       1999-01-18 11:08:48
[Download RAW message or body]

>>>>> "Jochen" == Jochen Kuepper <jochen@uni-duesseldorf.de> writes:

Jochen> To All, On Fre, 15 Jan 1999 M.Clemence@exeter.ac.uk wrote:

>> I have just realised reading this, that I say something similar
>> with one of my own software projects when moving over to ecgs
>> instead of gcc. It appears to be far less tolerant of un initilised
>> pointers.  For some reason, it seems far less likely to get a zero
>> in unitilised data than before - the change has led to me finding
>> quite a few new pointer bugs. Does anyone use egcs for developement
>> on lyx ?

Jochen> LyX does work correctly (well, at least corresponding to the
Jochen> pre :-) when compiled w/o optimization, but crashes on opening
Jochen> some documents when compiled w/ any optimization level.  I
Jochen> haven't found time to track it down yet, but it might more be
Jochen> of an egcs than lyx bug.  Does anybody run LyX on an Alpha
Jochen> here ? What OS, compiler ?

I do run LyX successfully on Digital Unix 4.0c. Compilation has been
done with gcc 2.7.2.3, gcc 2.8.1 and DEC cxx 6.1. I did not try egcs
though. It would be pretty nice to have at least a gdb backtrace of
the crash.

JMarc

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]