Re: commit - [HEAD] MingW build fix under Win98

From: Stephen Viles (sviles_abi@iinet.net.au)
Date: Fri Aug 22 2003 - 04:13:32 EDT

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22/08/03 12:44:38 PM, "Michael D. Pritchett" <mpritchett@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>This one is for sviles of bugzilla help.
>
>I tracked down and fixed an elusive bug that caused MingW builds to crash
>on startup for Win98. We failed to trap a system call error return (-1)
>and instead assumed it was valid memory requirement and used it to
>allocate memory. Why it worked for MSFT builds (there was a debug warning
>hidden in all the debug messages) I will never know.
>
>Modified files
>src/af/gr/win/gr_Win32CharWidths.cpp
>

Beautiful. Thanks heaps Michael. Now I can start fixing some bugs,
not just reproducing them.

Cheers - Stephen.

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