[Paraview] Paraview handles data different on MacOS

[Michael Jackson]

I can confirm the crash on OS X. Here is the top part of the stack trace:

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Thread 0 Crashed:  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libvtkIO.pv3.14.dylib         	0x0000000107de5593 vtkXMLDataReader::ReadPieceData() + 1507
1   libvtkIO.pv3.14.dylib         	0x0000000107e19b41 vtkXMLUnstructuredDataReader::ReadPieceData() + 209
2   libvtkIO.pv3.14.dylib         	0x0000000107e05bd2 vtkXMLPolyDataReader::ReadPieceData() + 370
3   libvtkIO.pv3.14.dylib         	0x0000000107e1ce52 vtkXMLUnstructuredDataReader::ReadXMLData() + 642
4   libvtkIO.pv3.14.dylib         	0x0000000107e0ad17 vtkXMLReader::RequestData(vtkInformation*, vtkInformationVector**, vtkInformationVector*) + 423


And the same file works just fine on Windows 7 x64 using both a 32 bit and 64 bit ParaView. Odd. I don't think changing the floats->doubles is going to solve the problem. I did find some blank lines in the file, removed those but still crashed on OS X.
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Mike Jackson                    Principal Software Engineer
BlueQuartz Software                            Dayton, Ohio
mike.jackson at bluequartz.net              www.bluequartz.net

On May 3, 2012, at 4:09 AM, Fabian Key wrote:

> Dear Paraview developers and users,
> 
> I am using Paraview (3.14.1) to visualize the solution of a simulation program. The program generates data files in vtp format (ASCII). A representative file is attached.
> Using Paraview on Windows 7 (64 Bit)  or ubuntu12.04 (32 Bit) everything works, but on Mac OS X (64 Bit) it crashes after clicking on the 'Apply'-Button or gives the message:
>  'ERROR: In /Source/ParaView/release/ParaView/VTK/IO/vtkXMLDataReader.cxx, line 510 vtkXMLPolyDataReader (0x126f7c220): 
>  Cannot read point data array "my_scalars" from PointData in piece 0. The data array in the element may be too short.'
> 
> Is there anything I can do to handle this Mac OS specific problem?
> 
> Thanks for help,
> Fabian 
> 
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