[Paraview] Run Problem using Viaual Studio 8.0

[Andrew Maclean]

Hi Amy,
Thanks for looking into this.
Let me know if I can help in any way.

Regards
   Andrew



On 3/15/06, Amy Squillacote <amy.squillacote at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Please update your ParaView 2.4 CVS repository and try building again.  I
> checked in changes this afternoon to that CVS branch that should fix your
> build problems.  Please let us know if you encounter more problems.
>
> - Amy
>
> At 09:27 AM 3/14/2006, Amy Squillacote wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> I'm copying this thread back to the ParaView users list to keep other
> people up-to-date on this issue.  The error around line 1205 in
> vtkClientServerStream.cxx has now been fixed both on the trunk and the 2.4branch of the ParaView CVS repository.  Another developer at Kitware (who
> has a Visual Studio 8.0 compiler) is looking into the problem in
> vtkInformationVectorKey.  I'll let you know when it has been fixed.
>
> - Amy
>
> At 10:33 PM 3/13/2006, Andrew Maclean wrote:
>
> Hi Amy,
>
> It still won't run – an exception is raised at line 1205 in
> vtkClientserver.cxx.
>
> Thanks for fixing line 239 (I prefer your solution to mine!), but in the
> same bug report I also mentioned line1205 and, as I thought, it is not
> fixed.
> Look at line 1205 – in vtkClientServerStream.cxx [ unsigned char* end =
> &*this->Internal->Data.end(); ]
> This raises a "vector iterator not dereferencable" error. This is actually
> correct behavior; the standard does not allow you to dereference the end
> iterator. It just so happens that this compiler picks up this one and no
> others do!
>
>
> My suggestions would be:
>
> 1 ) Delete lines 1208 to 1211 and add the following at line 1202:
> *if(this->Internal->Data.empty())
>   {
>      return 0;
>   }
> *This does the empty vector check before anything happens.
>
> 2) You can then (but I don't like it – it's a kludge which fools the
> compiler) replace:
> *unsigned char *end = &*this->Internal->Data.end();
> *with
> *unsigned char *end = begin+this->Internal->Data.size()*sizeof(unsigned
> char);
> *
> and the parser seems to work.
>
> 3) But then you then get a crash at line 138 in
> vtkInformationVectorKey.cxx. Once again this line triggers a "vector
> subscript out of range error".
>
> … this is getting complex!   I don't know this code very well. I am
> guessing that v is empty and that info is empty also. So something is not
> being checked for being empty in ParaView.
>
> I suspect something in vtkSMProxy::UpdateVTKObjects(); line 875.
>
> Attached is the call stack for this crash.
>
>
> 4) Could you also disable the deprecated warnings by adding this to the
> CMakeLists.txt file?
>
>
> I hope all this helps.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Amy Squillacote [ mailto:amy.squillacote at kitware.com<amy.squillacote at kitware.com>]
>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 14 March 2006 00:58
> *To:* a.maclean at cas.edu.au; paraview at paraview.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] Run Problem using Viaual Studio 8.0
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> A change was made recently (a week ago) to fix this problem both on the
> trunk and the 2.4 branch of the ParaView CVS repository.  How recent is
> your checkout of ParaView?  If it's older than a week ago, please try
> updating the source tree and rebuilding.  If your source tree is up-to-date
> and you're still seeing the problem, can you tell where the end iterator is
> being dereferenced and will you send us a stack trace?
>
> - Amy
>
> At 01:57 AM 3/11/2006, Andrew Maclean wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>    I have been able to compile ParaView OK using Visual Studio  8.0 (it
> compiles with the usual warnings about {Microsoft} deprecated functions) but
> it will not run.
> I have filed a bug report (2926) but I am curious to see if others are
> able to run ParaView after compiling with Visual Studio 8.0. The crash
> seems to be caused by dereferencing the end iterator.
> Am I the only one using Visual Studio 8.0 and ParaView?
>
> Andrew
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