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-Ken<BR>
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On 12/15/09 2:34 PM, "Sean McBride" <<a href="sean@rogue-research.com">sean@rogue-research.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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>This morning I noticed that a bunch of the ParaView tests were failing<BR>
>on blackrose that were not failing yesterday.<BR>
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><a href="http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewTest.php?onlyfailed&buildid=493486">http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewTest.php?onlyfailed&buildid=493486</a><BR>
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>I eventually noticed that all the tests were in some way printing<BR>
>characters on the screen. Using a debugger, I discovered that an<BR>
>internal freetype object named clazz, which holds a bunch of function<BR>
>pointers for various font manipulations, appears to be set to garbage.<BR>
>See the screen captures to see the stack trace right before the crash<BR>
>and the odd values stored for function pointers. The crash occurs when<BR>
>it tries to run the request_size function.<BR>
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Kenneth,<BR>
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Can you follow the instructions in vtk_freetype_mangle.h and send me the<BR>
result of running the big 'nm' command?<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
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Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com<BR>
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada<BR>
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