current HEAD hangs on my FC3 after login

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Sun Dec 12 12:58:39 PST 2004


On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 15:45 -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dnzer wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 14:02 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> >>
> > I can't reproduce that. What resolution(s) are you running at? Can you
> > make a screenshot?
> >
> It has to do with Render and particular compiler. The problem was that
> HostDataBlit was called as an argument to HostDataBlitCopyPass.
> 
> This breaks if the compiler stores buf_pitch (among other variables) first
> and then calls HostDataBlit.
> 
> This could be a gcc bug, but more likely C does not specify the order
> in which function arguments are evaluated.

Indeed, good catch. I wasn't sure of that myself but considered it a
case of 'works for me'. :)

Hopefully, this will fix Dave's problem as well...


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