[PD] vista & win7 support ?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 12, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Wed, 12 May 2010, patko wrote:
>
>> Maybe opening a new topic with "[print] crashes pd" would make it.
>> the problem is exactly there:
>> x_interface.c:28 buf[bufsize] = 0;
>> remove or comment this line, then it won't crash anymore.
>> I've no clue what this line stand for.
>
> If you have no clue, then perhaps you are replacing a bug by another  
> bug. This looks like it's a bug regardless of the OS, although it  
> currently only shows up on some versions of Windows. What you  
> suggest seems to be a bug on any OS as well. Instead of removing the  
> line, try prepending it with :
>
>  buf = resizebytes(buf, bufsize+1, bufsize);
>
> (I hope I didn't make any mistake there... but looks ok to me now).

Shouldn't this work instead:

         buf[bufsize-1] = 0;


.hc


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