svn --version

[Corinna Vinschen]

On May 24 14:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 24 14:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On May 24 11:22, Denis Excoffier wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:12:02AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > >> On May 24 09:06, Denis Excoffier wrote:
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > Hello,
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > With the new subversion (1.7.5) and the last
> > > >> > snapshot (20120523 21:51:34), the command 'svn --version' produces
> > > >> > segmentation fault, with no svn.exe.stackdump produced:
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > % /usr/bin/svn --version
> > > >> > Segmentation fault
> > > >> > %
> > > >> 
> > > >> I just installed the latest subversion 1.7.5 and I can not reproduce
> > > >> this crash.  svn --version prints the version information just fine with
> > > >> the latest snapshot DLL.  I made sure I was really using the snapshot DLL,
> > > >> not my local debug version.
> 
> Never mind that.  I *can* reproduce the problem.  For some reason it
> only occurs on XP, not on W7.

I applied a patch.  There was some pointer at process startup which was
apparently always 0 on W7 while it could have a random value on XP.
I changed the condition to check if we're still in process startup and
that seems to work fine on W7 and XP.

Boy, what a lot of problems with something which was supposeed to be
a *temporary* workaround :(


Corinna

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