Comments on CVS

I built the latest CVS snapshot and ran all the apps in test/

  • checkkeys had strange periodic delays on my machine with no load–try
    hittin drumming your fingers across ‘asdf’ really quickly a few times and
    watch ‘d’ and ‘f’ never appear.
  • loopwave gets a SIGSEGV if you toss it a bad filename–gdb says:

[mvance at localhost test]$ gdb loopwave
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GDB 4.16 (i386-redhat-linux), Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc…
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048844: file loopwave.c, line 53.
(gdb) run blah
Starting program: /usr/local/src/SDL/test/loopwave blah

Breakpoint 1, main (argc=2, argv=0xbffffc14) at loopwave.c:53
53 if ( SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_AUDIO) < 0 ) {
(gdb) cont
Continuing.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x400fb3de in _SDL_LoadWAV_RW ()
(gdb) where
#0 0x400fb3de in _SDL_LoadWAV_RW ()
(gdb)

  • testlock: one process ends up working continuously–can’t tell if this is
    correct program behaviour or not. will investigate.

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