[comp.sys.sgi] RS6000 winopen randomly dies

slamont@network.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) (05/10/91)

Has anyone else experienced this problem under GL on an RS6000 (mine's a model
530 with 24 bitplanes plus 24 bit Z buffer running AIX 3.1 3003)?  A perfectly
normal call to winopen() will dump core upon random invocation.  Invoke the 
program again and everything works perfectly.  The code runs like a champ on an
SGI.

I've had this problem on several applications, so I have a hard time believing
that they're all broken in exactly the same way.  Looking at the dumps tells me
next to nothing, since everything that I am responsible for seems to be working
correctly

Any theories?

							spl (the p stands for
							perplexed)
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slamont@network.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) (05/11/91)

In article <5311@network.ucsd.edu> slamont@network.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) writes:
>                                                               ... A perfectly
>normal call to winopen() will dump core upon random invocation. ...

Bad form, I know, to follow up one's own posting, however, a small clarification
is in order.  One email correspondent thought I meant I was calling winopen()
with no arguments and that was what was causing my problem.  That isn't the
case, I'm calling winopen() in the form of

	winopen( "foo" );

as advertised in the man page.  This is the form that breaks. :-(

							spl (the p stands for
							pixelated)
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Steve Lamont, SciViGuy -- (408) 646-2752 -- a guest at network.ucsd.edu --
NPS Confuser Center / Code 51 / Naval Postgraduate School / Monterey, CA 93943
"When people are programming virtual 5-D webs of glowing spidersilk by pure
thought power -- there will still be hackers."  T.Neff in alt.folklore.computers