[Pd] Filenames

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> of course, [openpanel] might output a symbol that crashes
> [splitfilename], but it didn't do so with any random file i opened.
> this was exactly the reason why i asked for a crashpatch: have a
> _reliable_ and _reproducible_ way to trigger a crash. (not just sometimes).
> in order to proceed could you please: find a file that always crashes pd
> when you select it with the openpanel in the patch you sent me.

Not all bugs that cause crashes, can be made to crash 100% of the time (I 
have a damn lot of experience suffering from that kind of bug).

It can help to use the valgrind / valkyrie debugger, which detects a lot 
more bugs than gdb (but isn't a replacement for gdb: it's more like the 
Purify program).

Beyond that, there are some bugs that still are unexplainable using 
valgrind, but those are a lot rarer.

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