Bug#316180: Preliminary diagnosis

2006-10-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:38:54AM -0200, Rodrigo Tadeu Claro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Daniel Burrows disse: > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 09:14:05PM -0700, Daniel Burrows > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > >> (d) The graph buffer remains initialized until a function cal

Bug#316180: Preliminary diagnosis

2006-10-17 Thread Rodrigo Tadeu Claro
Daniel Burrows disse: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 09:14:05PM -0700, Daniel Burrows > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> (d) The graph buffer remains initialized until a function called >> rawmode_init() is invoked. rawmode_init() has no documentation, >> does not exist in any he

Bug#316180: Preliminary diagnosis

2006-10-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 09:14:05PM -0700, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > (d) The graph buffer remains initialized until a function called > rawmode_init() is invoked. rawmode_init() has no documentation, > does not exist in any header in /usr/include, and tur

Bug#316180: Preliminary diagnosis

2006-10-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
As this is an RC bug, I've been investigating it a little. Here's what I've determined so far: (a) debugging SVGALib programs sucks. (sorry, had to get that off my chest :) ) (b) The proximate cause of the crash is invoking memset with a pointer to unallocated memory. This is