[jazzplusplus-devel] Core dump update

[Matt K. <ra...@ch...>]

All, FYI,

I just checked the wxGTK core dump bug status on sourceforge.
The developer said that my patch wouldn't work in all cases,
and that other people are seeing similar core dumps in other
placesin wxGTK, caused by the same compiler bug.  He said that
GCC 3.3 is just no good and that it must be updated in order to make
wxGTK work correctly.  I think my patch would probably fix JAZZ
and probably Audacity, most likely, though.

I still think this is somewhat of a cop-out on their part.  They
could re-write the global stuff to be immune to initialization order
problems.  There's not that much of it from what I can see.  But, I
don't think I alone can make them budge.

This kinda sucks, because it will place compiler requirements on
JAZZ (and Audacity, and......).  I hate it when an app requires a
certain compiler version to compile.  Ack.  Pthphfffft.  It tends
to make people more hesitant to try an app.

Matt