[PD-dev] gem vs. mrpeach strings?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 6, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Martin Peach wrote:

> zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:
>
>> ok, i now did following tests:
>>
>> bin/pd from pd-extended with Gem from pd-extended:
>>   the error occurs
>>
>> bin/pd from pd-extended with Gem from my local disk:
>>   the error occurs
>>
>> bin/pd vanilla with Gem from pd-extended:
>>   the error does not occur
>>
>> bin/pd vanilla with Gem from my local disk:
>>   the error does not occur
>>
>>
>> so the problem seems to be related to (not necessarily caused by)
>> something in the pd-extended binary.
>> the first thing that comes to my mind is still related to "string"s,
>> and this is unfortunately mrpeach's string-patch.
>
> All the string patch does is establish a string type and let pd  
> route string
> messages to their handlers if they exist (so far only the [str]  
> external has
> them). If you don't use that type, it should have no effect. It  
> doesn't
> really have anything to do with strings either, the string atoms  
> are just
> pointers to something. It would be interesting to see how that could
> interfere with Gem...possibly there's a name clash somewhere, or  
> Gem is
> expecting to see a specific memory structure within pd, say where  
> the list
> of types is maintained.

Unfortunately, looks like I found another similar bug when loading  
[widget].  But [widget] fails to load at all:

consistency check failed: widget_anything
consistency check failed: widget_symbol
consistency check failed: widget_symbol
consistency check failed: widget_anything
consistency check failed: widget_symbol
consistency check failed: widget_symbol
consistency check failed: widget_anything
consistency check failed: widget_symbol
consistency check failed: widget_symbol
widget's error: creation failure
... you might be able to track this down from the Find menu.
                 see standard error for details
widget's error: creation failure
                 see standard error for details
widget q snd -width 100
... couldn't create

I checked this patch into the branch-v0-40-extended pd/src, so  
Martin, if you want to work directly there to fix this, please feel  
free to commit to that branch.  Just make sure that you don't commit  
to MAIN :).  Then ultimately, the patch should be updated.

.hc


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