[vtk-developers] bug 8513, updating freetype; need Windows dev to help

[Moreland, Kenneth]

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-Ken


On 12/15/09 2:34 PM, "Sean McBride" <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:

On 12/15/09 12:22 PM, Moreland, Kenneth said:

>This morning I noticed that a bunch of the ParaView tests were failing
>on blackrose that were not failing yesterday.
>
>http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewTest.php?onlyfailed&buildid=493486
>
>I eventually noticed that all the tests were in some way printing
>characters on the screen.  Using a debugger, I discovered that an
>internal freetype object named clazz, which holds a bunch of function
>pointers for various font manipulations, appears to be set to garbage.
>See the screen captures to see the stack trace right before the crash
>and the odd values stored for function pointers.  The crash occurs when
>it tries to run the request_size function.

Kenneth,

Can you follow the instructions in vtk_freetype_mangle.h and send me the
result of running the big 'nm' command?

Thanks,

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