Re: [Plplot-devel] X20C.C bug fixed - problem with "plAlloc2dGrid"

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Andrew Roach writes:
 > I finally found the error in X20C that was causing SIGFP errors. The error
 > was being tripped by a floating point exception in "plMinMax2dGrid", which
 > in turn was being caused by a miss-allocation in "plAlloc2dGrid".
 > "plAlloc2dGrid" has always worked in the past with DJGPP so why it stopped
 > working now, and only with X20C.C, I don't know. Any clues ? 

Luck? :)  Probably calloc should always be used rather than malloc.  If
using unitialized data *consistently* produced a segv then the malloc would be
better in theory to help find logic errors, in user code at least.  In a
library it's iffier, so the calloc is fine with me.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...