Re: [Devel] about my previous post : mkfontscale xfree type1 fonts on PowerPC computer

[Frederic Crozat]

Le lun 19/07/2004 à 06:29, Werner LEMBERG a écrit :
> > I think that because adding a line like  : printf("ok");  
> > AFTER the call to 
> > FT_FACE_LOOKUP_SERVICE()    resolves the problem and
> > mkfontscale doesn't crash 
> > anymore when calling it in Type1 directory.
> > 
> > What do you think about that ?
> > (i use gcc3.3.4)
> 
> We had already similar reports, but we couldn't find the reason.
> Maybe a compiler bug?  As mentioned in another mail, please recompile
> the program using the gcc compiling options `-gdwarf-2' and `-g3' (at
> least this was necessary with 3.1 of gcc, according to the gdb 6.0
> info pages); this makes it possible, AFAIK, to trace macro calls also.
> 
> Then, after the crash, type `bt full' and report the results.

We had similar report when compiling freetype 2.1.7 with gcc 3.3 and
with optimisations higher than -O on x86 platform. It was probably a gcc
bug since problem disappeared with gcc 3.4 + freetype 2.1.8/2.1.9 (I
haven't done tests with 2.1.7).

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Frederic Crozat <address@hidden>
Mandrakesoft