Hi, > > It sounds like you have discovered (or rediscovered) an issue in the > command-line parsing code on your OS X platform. Could you remind > us again > of exactly what hardware that is (32-bit or 64-bit, PowerPC or Intel)?
PowerPC, 32 bit AFAIR. That's also a problem for valgrind, since according due http://valgrind.org/ is there only a valgrind port for Intel/Darwin available. I don't see such problems on Mac OS X 10.5, Intel. Is gdb of any help? Regards, Werner > > I looked up bus error at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_error, and > it > appears to have two general causes. The first of those seems closely > related to segfaults and memory management and the second of these > has to do > with memory alignment (which might be screwed up in the command-line > parsing > code for big-endian architectures like PowerPC, but not little-endian > architectures like Intel). > > Generally with all such errors I suggest you use valgrind to help > figure > things out. So do you get valgrind error reports for all command-line > options or just -dev.? If just -dev, is it for all devices or just > the ones > that produce bus errors? > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and > Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state > implementation > for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting > software > package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the > Loads of > Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project > (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and > focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel -- Dr. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10 A-1040 Wien Austria DVR-Nr: 0005886 email: sme...@iap.tuwien.ac.at web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office) +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
