Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] Core dump update

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

Dave Fancella wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 March 2004 04:20 am, Matt Kelly wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> To be honest, I'll bet we can safely ignore it and it'll go away.  ;)  I'm 
> thinking that if a later version of GCC is known to work fine with wxGTK, the 
> distributions will be picking it up, of course.  We just make sure that we've 
> saved all data already before the segfault comes and be happy.  :)  If users 
> find it an inconvenience, we can just tell them to upgrade their compiler, 
> and make some excuses about how it's a specific version of GCC and the bug is 
> in the compiler itself, or in wxGTK, there's some disagreement over it, and 
> nothing we can do except to recommend a different compiler.

I suppose.  Still bugs me though.  :)

> 
> But like I said (I think it was here), since I never lost any data from 
> Audacity doing this, I'm not particularly worried about it there, so we just 
> make sure we've saved everything before the core dump.  ;)

You are correct... I too have never lost anything to the core dumps.
It's mostly cosmetic.

Matt