Re: [Devel] FIXED: KDE crashes, was: 2.4.3-3mdk and VIA

[Arnd Bergmann]

It actually had to do with the fact that you forgot to allocate any memory
for the pointer. It is the same problem, just a different symptom.
Please look at the patch attached to this mail.
If it is what I suspect, this should be a cleaner way to do it.

Arnd <><

Tom wrote:

> I found out what I was playing "fandango on core".  It has to do with the 
> psaux
> functions not liking being passed pointers that are local in scope (for 
> instance,
> pointers that are defined in a function's stack space).  I fixed this by 
> using a
> handle (Macintosh programming parlance: a pointer to a pointer) and allocating
> space for the dereferenced handle.
> 
> Anyway, once I did that (which fixed the core dumps), I did not see the 
> problems
> that Arnd reported.  Strange.  I will need to see a screen snapshot.
> 
> A new patch will be forthcoming.  I am glad I didn't commit right way!

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