Re: Segfault (was: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 4)

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:37:45PM -0500, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>I think it is Cygwin1.dll from snapshot.  I noticed this last night on
>Win2K,
>after I replaced cygwin1.dll from snapshot with 1.1.4, it did not do
>segfault.

Both the backtrace and the strace output indicate that this is dying
outside of cygwin itself.  In the backtrace below, the only cygwin
code involved is the startup code which calls main.

If this is a cygwin problem, please help me figure it out, because 1.1.5
is coming soon.

cgf

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Fortin [mailto:fortinj@attglobal.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 4:31 PM
>> To: Suhaib Siddiqi
>> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 4
>>
>>
>> Right now I'm running NT.  I will check tommorrow on Win98.
>>
>> John
>>
>> Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>>
>> > John, Wich OS is it, NT or Win98?
>> >
>> > Suhaib
>> >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: John Fortin [mailto:fortinj@attglobal.net]
>> > > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 4:16 PM
>> > > To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
>> > > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 4
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > > Then i noticed some curiosity from the xserver - it
>> always segfaults
>> > > > when it is reset (all client connections got closed)
>> > >
>> > > Also saw this when I ran xwin under gdb...
>> > >
>> > > (gdb) run -screen 0 640x480x16
>> > >
>> > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> > > 0x4cced8 in miSpriteCloseScreen ()
>> > >
>> > > Starting program: /usr/X11R6/bin/xwin.exe -screen 0 640x480x16
>> > >
>> > > (gdb) bt
>> > > #0  0x4cced8 in miSpriteCloseScreen ()
>> > > #1  0x403611 in main ()
>> > > #2  0x61003641 in _size_of_stack_reserve__ ()
>> > > #3  0x610038b5 in _size_of_stack_reserve__ ()
>> > > #4  0x610038f4 in _size_of_stack_reserve__ ()
>> > > #5  0x7a7091 in cygwin_crt0 ()
>> > >
>> > > (gdb)
>> > >
>> > > so maybe in miSpriteCloseScreen ???
>> > >
>>

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