[GEM-dev] open message may crash pix_images

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

cyrille henry wrote:
> hello,
> just for your information :
> 
> i can't find in the list archive, but did you remember when i get crash
> while sending open messages to pix_image?
> the crash append if the file did not exist, or if i tried to open a file
> that was not an image.
> at that time, compiling gem solve the problem, so i was not able to find
> where was the problem.

right i can remember it (and i remember to not being able to reproduce
it ;-))

> 
> but now, this is appening again.
> when it crash, i've got this on the terminal :
> 
> pd: magick/exception.c:845: ThrowMagickExceptionList: Assertion
> `exception->sign ature == 0xabacadabUL' failed.
> Pd: signal 6
> pd_gui: pd process exited
> Erreur de segmentation

is this ubuntu or debian(testing/unstable)? with nvidia drivers?

does it crash as well if you create an empty [pix_freeframe] object?
if so, you are likely experiencing a bug related to Exception-handling
and libstdc++/nvidia; using older libstdc++ helps.

mfg.asdr
IOhannes