[vlc-devel] Uho! strerror...

[Rafaël Carré]

2007/9/22, Rémi Denis-Courmont <rem at videolan.org>:
> Le Monday 17 September 2007 21:21:31 Rémi Denis-Courmont, vous avez écrit:
> > As you can see, that's going to be very fun. But don't hold your breath -
> > the real fun will be fixing the underlying libraries (e.g. live),
> > especially since we do not have use rcontrib on Linux. Now, that looks
> > really fun.
>
> I have removed pretty much every strerror() calls in the entire VLC, all
> replaced with strerror_r(). This seems to have reduced the frequency of
> gettext crashes, but not nearly removed them :-(

Is the crash happening in strerror_r() ?

> There would seem to be something very very fishy between the gettext exit()
> handler and some heap-allocated translated strings inside LibVLC. But I have
> not quite been able to determine what the problem really is. Not at all. This
> is driving me mad. I am getting pretty desperate at that point.

Or is it happening when VLC does exit() ?

> If I judge by how often these crashes occur, if no one else takes care of
> this, the only option will be to disable NLS completely on Linux. If this
> goes on, I will be the next one to jump ship.

Maybe that would help to compile glibc with debug information (or to
install the related -dbg  debian package).

* funman ties courmish to the ship's mast.

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Rafaël Carré