Subject: Re: Newcomer
From: Guillaume Proux (gproux@acesoliton.com)
Date: Sun Sep 10 2000 - 21:02:50 CDT
Sorry a premature stop
;D
>
> It has been 2 months since I am observing this mailing list through the
> digests available every two weeks or so... and during the week end I
> connected to CVS to get an idea of how I could help.
>
> I managed more or less reliably to make the software crash by using
> a lot of undo/redo and adding chars. The check speller then runs through
the
> wall while expanding a buffer for insertion (the crash is while the
> memmove is done). I traced the issue back to:
const UT_UCSChar * pSpan = getPointer(pft->getBufIndex());
pt_PieceTable:326
which returns NULL
I am a bit uncomfortable with all the data structures used in AbiWord (what
is a VarSet ?) so I could not trace exactly why this failed
Can anybody help? I am willing to help development by doing bug fixing but
need a bit of background to really exploit any of my potential ability (if
there is)
cheers,
Guillaume
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