Re: strange (windows) program behavior

[Lloyd Dupont]

One interesting breakthrough.
If I installed GNUstep that fixes the problem and it works.

Somehow it has to do with incorrect GNUstep initialization.....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Dupont" <lloyd@nova-mind.com>
To: "GNUstep Discussion" <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: strange (windows) program behavior


> I have my program up and running, even running on a test laptop.
> This WE some people tested my installer and the installed application 
> crashed.
> Out of curiosity I formatted the laptop and install my program on freshly 
> installed XP laptop.
> And then it crashes too.
>
> Note: I didn't "installed" GNUstep, but merely copy <GNUstep>/system/tool 
> in my working directory and setup the 3 variable GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT, (and 
> NETWORK_ROOT or something like that and the 3rd default pasth one) 
> pointing to my working directory.
>
> Then I investigate the crash. Something as simple as that:
>
> main()
> {
>    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
>
>    [NSColor whiteColor]; // crash here.. stack overflow
>    [pool release];
> }
>
>
> make it crash, the [NSColor whiteColor] make it stack overflow and crash.
> That's really weird (I even looked at the code of [NSColor whiteColor], 
> looks innocuous enough to me).
> What's even weirder is that it worked just fine on my PC and it crash on 
> this new(ly formnatted) one.
> I also check the path and both app should use the same GNUstep & 
> ObjectiveC DLLs.....
>
> Any ideas :S ?!?!
>
> Mmhh.. I will check the dlls with dependecy walker......
>
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