[Paraview-developers] paraview completely unusable (as usual)

[Sebastien Jourdain]

Hi John,

thanks for reporting the issue, we'll look into that during the day.

Seb

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch> wrote:
> The reason is because of the commit below. It seems like it fails to work after N calls on most machines. I fixed this a long time ago on my local branches, but forgot to reapply the fix when I switched to the standard paraview release branch (and master last week). After tracking that down, I found that trilinos also uses the dodgy realloc call and this was bringing down my plugins with segfaults at random and hard to reproduce times.
>
> Can I suggest a CMake option to disable this realloc call.
>
> ta
>
> JB
>
> commit c869c3d5875f503e757b64f2fd1ec349aee859bf
> Author: Sebastien Jourdain <sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com>
> Date:   Mon Jun 28 15:02:21 2010 -0400
>
>    ENH: Change the behaviour of DataArray.Resize(newSize)
>
>    Now, if the newSize is bigger than the current size, the call of Resize(newSize) will produce an array of that exact newsize and not big
>
>
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