Re: Strange crash in Player server

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Rich Mattes wrote:

> Changing
>
> assert(sortedlist = (char**)malloc(numdrivers*sizeof(char*)));
>
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> to
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> sortedlist = (char**)malloc(numdrivers*sizeof(char*));
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> assert(sortedlist);
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> fixes the crash.  With DNDEBUG enabled, sortedlist never gets allocated 
> because the assertion is skipped.  I think.  Anyway, with that out the way, 
> the Windows build should be up soon (once I test it on some other machines)
>
> Rich

Hi Rich,
Will it support cameracompress and cvcam drivers (libjpeg and opencv,
both available on windows)?
Not for me, someone keeps on asking me for that :)

Paul

>
> On 07/01/2010 09:35 AM, Rich Mattes wrote:
>>
>>  Hi guys,
>>
>>  I finally managed to get the Windows version of release 3.0.2 built last
>>  night (woo hoo!).  Or so I thought.  I installed and tested it, and ran in
>>  to the error reported here:
>>
>>  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3000451&group_id=42445&atid=433164
>>
>>  I was able to re-create that error last week on Linux by setting the build
>>  type to Release.  Since Release sets some cflags to use --O3, I tried
>>  changing them back to --O2, but to no avail.  The only other cflag being
>>  set is DNDEBUG, which I didn't think too much about at the time.  I
>>  eventually got busy with other things and didn't investigate any further.
>>
>>  Fast forward to yesterday, the Windows build is crashing in the same place
>>  in all build configurations (Release, Debug).  It happens right at the
>>  call to DriverTable::SortDrivers() in server/server.cc, PrintUsage().  I
>>  set a breakpoint there and tried to step into the code, but it immediately
>>  errors and jumps to some file-handle related function.  The Windows error
>>  message has something to do with an access violation; I don't have the
>>  exact message in front of me but I can post it later today.  I think it
>>  has something to do with char** sortedlist being uninitialized, but it
>>  gets allocated in SortDrivers before anything happens.
>>
>>  server.cc and drivertable.cc haven't been changed in 8 or more months, I
>>  am just wondering if anyone has any ideas before I dig deeper into the
>>  problem.
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>  Rich
>> 
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