Re: [Dri-devel] Merge Complete

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Don, 2002-10-24 at 13:52, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:47:01PM +0200, Michel D=E4nzer wrote:
> > > That certainly shouldn't be needed for shared entities. Where exactly
> > > was it crashing ?
> >=20
> > XAA dereferences pScrn->pScreen to track the state of shared entities.
> > RADEONScreenInit() calls other radeon driver functions which call
> > info->accel->Sync(), but the driver independent code only sets pScrn->p=
Screen
> > after ScreenInit(). Boom.
> =20
> A backtrace would be useful.

If you don't believe me, why don't you just try yourself? As noted in
the comment for that CVS commit, I tracked this down together with Kevin
Puetz, maybe he still has a backtrace somewhere.

What's the problem with setting this pointer, anyway?


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast