[PD] gdb and Pd WAS: testtone comments

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:02 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

>> ________________________________
>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: tim vets <timvets at gmail.com>; pd-list <pd-list at iem.at>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 12:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PD] testtone comments
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>> Hey Jonathan,
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>>
>> Cool, thanks I'll include that.  I was thinking, it would nice if  
>> the list of credits at the bottom was randomized.  Could you add  
>> that?  Right now its in a pretty arbitrary order and it would be  
>> nice to add names without worrying about the order.
>
> Yes, but I found that there is a segfault that pops up for me on  
> Ubuntu Maverick if I clear the subpatches
>
> and save, then close the patch.  I can't get gdb working with Pd at  
> the moment and so can't figure out what's causing
>
> the error (though I have suspicions it has to do with data  
> structures...)

You'll want to build Pd with -g in CFLAGS and remove -fomit-frame- 
pointer.  That should give you much better results with gdb.

.hc

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>> .hc
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>> On Sep 28, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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>> Here's a fix for about.pd
>>> (Also widened the window a bit so the entire version string can be  
>>> read on
>>>
>>> systems with larger fonts)
>>>
>>>
>>> -Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: tim vets <timvets at gmail.com>
>>>> To: pd-list <pd-list at iem.at>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 8:02 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [PD] testtone comments
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> oh and another detail:
>>>> when selecting "About Pd", I get:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> error: [print Tcl Version]: got 2 args instead of at least 0, at  
>>>> most 1
>>>>  print Tcl Version
>>>> ... couldn't create
>>>> error: [print Pd Version]: got 2 args instead of at least 0, at  
>>>> most 1
>>>>  print Pd Version
>>>> ... couldn't create
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I guess you could make those [print Tcl_Version] and [print  
>>>> Pd_Version] instead.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> gr,
>>>> Tim
>>>>
>>>> 2011/9/27 tim vets <timvets at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> Hi, just a small remark,
>>>>> In testtone.pd it says:
>>>>> " To see Pd's DOCUMENTATION, select
>>>>> "getting started" in the Help menu. "
>>>>> It may have been there in the past,
>>>>> but now there is no such thing as "getting started" in the Help  
>>>>> menu.
>>>>> At least not in my installation of 0.42.5-extended...
>>>>> gr,
>>>>> Tim
>>>>>
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