[vlc-devel] [VLC] #2933: LibVLC broken in v1.0.0 Final

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:08:55 -0000, "VLC" <trac at videolan.org> wrote:
> #2933: LibVLC broken in v1.0.0 Final
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>  Reporter:  beardless2   |        Owner:  courmisch              
>      Type:  defect       |       Status:  new                    
>  Priority:  high         |    Milestone:  1.0.x maintainance     
> Component:  LibVLC       |      Version:  master                 
>  Severity:  critical     |     Keywords:  libvlc integer overflow
>  Platform:  all          |   Difficulty:  easy                   
>       Wip:  Not started  |  
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>  LibVLC is broken in the final release of v1.0.0. It works absolutely
> fine
>  in the nightly builds leading up to the release and works fine in the
>  v1.0.1 GIT out last night.
> 
>  The problem occurs when using the method libvlc_new() with the option of
>  '--plugin-path=' + VLC_LibPath + 'plugins\'. There is an integer
> overflow
>  while loading one of the plugins, followed by an access violation.
> 
>  Since the nightly build the day before release were fine i would guess
>  this is a relatively easy fix to go back on teh code change that has
>  broken it?

This looks like a hosed build tree, rather than a source code bug.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont