[Fontconfig] fontconfig: Branch 'master' - 23 commits

[Raimund Steger]

On Mon, January 7, 2013 12:37, Raimund Steger wrote:
>
> On Mon, January 7, 2013 04:43, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> On 13-01-06 09:15 AM, Raimund Steger wrote:
>>> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> I'm not sure whether this is a problem for the way fontconfig uses
>>>> these
>>> operations. So far I've not been able to attribute any coredumps to
>>> _this_
>>> circumstance. This would need attention from an expert on the subject
>>> (which
>>> I'm not).
>>
>> So, did the pthread fixes make the crashes to go away or are you still
>> seeing
>> some?
>
> Unfortunately, I still see crashes. While I think the aforementioned
> compiler flags for Sun Studio are still necessary to enable threadsafe
> behavior of the standard library (well but maybe Akira can have a word
> where to put them...), this might not have been the main problem after
> all. I'll see if I can implement a shorter test snippet and send it in,
> maybe it's just my buggy test program :-)

I've attached a program now which is rather simple but produces pretty
reproducible coredumps on a test machine here (Sun M5000 w/ 12 CPUs).

Maybe you could first check whether the test program isn't complete
garbage...

Raimund





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