Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] Core dump update

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

> 
> On Wednesday 31 March 2004 05:46 am, Matt Kelly wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Hmm, I set out to prove that this bug in Audacity had the same cause earlier 
> tonight, and latest Audacity cvs doesn't segfault on exit any more.  The plot 
> thickens....  ;)

I did prove that my existing Audacity does indeed core dump for the same
reason.  Didn't try the CVS.

One thing, though, is that this problem is caused by an initialization/
construction ordering problem.  Maybe the latest CVS Audacity code 
causes a change in this order, causing the bug to go away.

Matt