Re: dia SIGSEGV when I move Class object

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 29 Aug 2003, Dmitry Perfilyev wrote:
>> Of course the fact that GDB itself is broken by this point indicates
>> some runaway pointer bug earlier on.  I hate those things.  Maybe
>> valgrind or what's-it-called on Solaris would be the best to diagnose
>> this.
>
> I've replaced standart Sun (from sunsolve) libexpat package to
> self-compilled version expat-1.95.6 and GDB error disappeared.
>
>>> And stack:
>>>
>>> (gdb) where #0 0xfe50e71c in umlclass_update_data (umlclass=0x312640)
>>> at class.c:564
>> [...]
>>
>> Scary, that line reads:
>> umlclass->connections[0].pos = elem->corner;
>
> In my gdb that line reads:
> (gdb) f
> #0  0xfe54e71c in umlclass_update_data (umlclass=0x2efa38) at class.c:564
> 564       pointspacing = elem->width / (pointswide + 1.0);
> (gdb) list class.c:564
> 559     
> 560       /* there are four corner points and two side points, thus all
> 561        * remaining points are on the top/bottom width
> 562        */
> 563       pointswide = (UMLCLASS_CONNECTIONPOINTS - 6) / 2;
> 564       pointspacing = elem->width / (pointswide + 1.0);
> 565     
> 566       /* across the top connection points */
> 567       for (i=1;i<=pointswide;i++) {
> 568         umlclass->connections[i].pos.x = x + (pointspacing * i);
>
>
>> which is no different than what the other objects do.  Can you check
>> what the other objects involved are, to see which one is the core
>> dumper?  I.e. umlclass->connections, umlclass->connections[0], elem.
> There is only one object "Class" in the page.  Sequence: New -> Place UML
> Class object on the page -> try to move -> core

Well, unless you've set UMLCLASS_CONNECTIONPOINTS to 4, which would be a
strange thing to do, I guess the above expat thing could be to blame.  Ick!

>> I'd love to see Dia working on Solaris.  Hey, I'd even let Sun pay me to
>> work on it:)
> And includes Dia in StarOffice ;)

That'd take some work, I think:)

-Lars

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