[PD-dev] strange segfaults

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On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, martin pi wrote:

>
> hi,
>
> i compiled a usually working library (linux) on
> a different computer yesterday and got strange
> segmentation faults occuring 10 minutes after
> running it.
>
> gdb revealed, that pd tries to gensym
> (dogensym() or dogen() as far as i recall). the
> calling statement was the setup method of an
> external i did not use in the patch (yet of the
> same lib).
>
> i did not save the backtrace and i cannor
> reconstruct the behaviour on my development
> computer.
>
>
> any thoughts are welcome
> martin

Sounds like some memory corruption somewhere in the code. Either in pd
or in the library you are using. As a guess I would say its in the
library, but bugs are hidden everywhere, and  specially this kind of
bug is hard to find.

Guenter