[Xastir] Re: Crash on 64-bit FC3

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Thu Oct 7 21:32:21 EDT 2004


On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Jim King wrote:
>
>> A little bit of looking at the source code was inspirational, and I
>> think I've found the problem.  It looks to me like the XtVaXXX functions
>> require a NULL as the final parameter to signal the end of argument
>> list.
>
> I believe there are quite a few more X11 calls that are in this same
> boat.  It'll take quite a code audit to find them all, but this
> needs to be done.
>
> Anyone want to sign on to do the whole thing?
>
> Should we each take a few files, or at least each claim one file at
> a time publicly on the list so that we don't duplicate efforts?

Well, the smart thing to do would be to grep out all the functions called, 
sort and uniq to get a single list, and then check the man pages and see 
what needs what and fix them all. If no one else has volunteered (and I 
see I'm a few messages behind) I will.




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