Re: [Foxgui-users]Can FXMETACLASSINITIALIZER be fixed for fox-1.0.x?

[jeroen <je...@fo...>]

On Saturday 28 December 2002 12:09 pm, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> jeroen wrote:
> > Which statement exactly is it dying at?  You're sure its no gcc/powerpc
> > idiosyncracy of some kind, e.g. compiler bug?
>
> Now I'm starting to suspect the latter (ugh). I knew that it was
> crashing in the __FXMETACLASSINITIALIZER__ struct's constructor, but
> after adding more debugging statements it turned out that the
> problematic lines were the calls to fxcalloc() and fxfree() [by way of
> the FXCALLOC and FXFREE macros]. For example, if I simply replace lines
> like this:
>
> 	FXCALLOC(&metaClassTable,FXMetaClass*,nmetaClassTable);
>
> with this:
>
> 	metaClassTable=(const FXMetaClass**)calloc(nmetaClassTable,
> 		sizeof(FXMetaClass*));
>
> and a similar change for the FXFREE line, the library loads OK.
>
> Very disturbing. That's as far as I got before taking a break last night.

Perhaps there is some issue with compiling for position independent code,
or using -rdynamic or something like that?  fxcalloc() basically just
calls calloc(), but resolving to fxcalloc() may work differently than 
resolving to calloc() during load-time.



		- Jeroen


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