Re: DDD 3.3.9 (amd64-portbld-freebsd5.3) gets `Abort trap' signal

[Bradford Castalia]

False alarm. My appologies.

After doing a complete OS re-install, starting with a minimal systems
and adding only those components necessary to provide a basic user
envirionment (with KDE on X11) I found that a fresh installation of ddd
(from a FreeBSD ports binary package) appears to be working normally.

-- 

Bradford Castalia                                 Senior Systems Analyst
Planetary Image Research Laboratory                University of Arizona


Bradford Castalia wrote:
> 
> This problem occurred immediately after building ddd from source in the
> FreeBSD ports tree. There were many compiler warning messages warning
> about pointer-integer casts; e.g.:
> 
> SourceView.C:5546: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
> 
> This is typical when source code developed for a 32-bit environment is
> ported to a 64-bit environment. In fact, I was using ddd in the hopes
> that it would help me pin down the source of the same kind of problem
> in another tool (nedit) that I want to use on this new architecture.
> The ddd process was able to execute - displaying its splash screen -
> but immediately got lost (top showed it was busy chasing after phantoms)
> and then produced this error message (4 times)
> 
> ddd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense
> 
> before I sent it a kill -HUP signal and it generated its final error
> message. The ~/.ddd/log file contained:
> 
> GNU DDD 3.3.9 (amd64-portbld-freebsd5.3)
> Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.
> Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Universität Passau, Germany.
> Copyright (C) 2001 Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.
> Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> Compiled with GCC 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728
> Requires X11R6, Xt11R6, Motif 2.1 (GNU/LessTif Version 2.1 Release 0.93.36)
> Includes XPM 3.4.11, Athena Panner (7000002L), DDD core
> Built 2004-10-08 by Charlie  <address@hidden>.
> $  ddd
> +  /bin/sh -c 'exec gdb -q -fullname'
> !  Abort trap
> 
> I hope that ddd can be ported to the 64-bit environment without too much
> trouble. Please let me know if I can be of assistance as a test site.
> 
> Thnx,
> 
> --
> 
> Bradford Castalia                                 Senior Systems Analyst
> Planetary Image Research Laboratory                University of Arizona
> 
> "Build an image in your mind, fit yourself into it."