Re: Two Proposals (inter-related)

On Jan 10, 2008 12:13 AM, Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:
> 1. Math crashes anytime you try to use it.

Of course I can't be sure that this is related, but recently there
have been reports of systematic crashes of gtkmathview even on Linux.
After some investigation, it looks like there is a problem in recent
versions of GCC (e.g. 4.2.1) that prevents some combination of
templates+compiler optimizations to be compiled properly.

Unfortunately the problem is very subtle to identify precisely. Gdb
reports no apparent anomaly in the place of occurrence, valgrind is of
no help because as soon as you compile gtkmathview in a large static
library the bug goes away. ATM, the only workarounds I know of are
1) compiling gtkmathview statically
2) disabling optimizations -O0
3) disabling inlining -fno-inine

If the problem you're reporting is indeed related to this, you might
also consider one of these possibilities.

--luca
Received on Thu Jan 10 08:47:16 2008