Re: GDNC crashes

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, August 17, 2001, at 07:13 PM, Marko Mikulicic wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I use libffi becouse libfcall does fails with gstep-db (EOFaul class).

That surprises me ... ,y understanding is that the libffi code is 
incomplete/untested,
but that the libffcall code is pretty solid ... though a memory leak was 
fixed a while
back, and a threading problem quite recently.
I suspect that if the libffcall/gstep-db combination fails, the bug is 
most likely in
gstep-db and the libffi stuff is hiding it in some way.

> I used gnustep with libffi for 4 days without problems then I rebooted
> my machine, rebuild the font cache (I added latin2 fonts on the system
> and I wanted to try them out on gnustep) wich leaded to a xfs crash 
> (Xfree 4.0.3). After that I sucessfully started an *.app but
> the NSWorkspaceDidLaunchApplicationNotification crashed gdnc.

My guess is that you were using a version of gdnc linked with libffcall,
and after the reboot used libffi, and the libffi stuff isn't working yet.

> Is gdnc requred also for non distributed code ? (All I want
> is a database oriented application that doesn't need interact
> with other applications, for now)

NSWorkspace uses it to let other apps (and the workspace manager) know
about the app.

> Is there a quick hack that prevents gnustep from using gdnc ?

Commenting out the code that uses the distributed notification center in
NSWorkspace.m should probably work to stop your apps using this.

That being said, I'd recommend getting the latest code from CVS (or a 
snapshot
if that's easier) and using libffcall.