On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:31:12 +0100 (CET) Michelle Legrand <michelle.legr...@openwide.fr> said:
> Hello, > > I am facing an issue with Enventor on Windows which leads Enventor to crash > immediately with a segmentation fault at launch. The error tracked by GDB is > in the following assignement in enventor/src/lib/auto_comp.c > (https://git.enlightenment.org/tools/enventor.git/tree/src/lib/auto_comp.c) : > ad->init_thread = ecore_thread_run(init_thread_cb, init_thread_end_cb, > init_thread_cancel_cb, ad); > > We found out that this segmentation fault is due to the type Eina_Thread > being defined by a unsigned long int which on Windows seems to have an > unsuffisant size. The reason is that Windows uses the LLP64 data models as > described on > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_computing#64-bit_data_models. > > There would be two solutions to correct this problem. One would be to define > Eina_Thread as unsigned long long int for Win32 exclusively, or we could use > a standard integer type as uint64_t. I would like to have your opinion about > this and what would be the best solution to adopt. oh dear. this requires an abi break on windows then. hmmmm (another solution is to use this int as a lookup in a table and this table contains the actual thread handles ... that doesn't break abi, but it's REALLY ugly). i'd go for the abi break. votes? -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
