finding source of segfault

[Adam Jackson]

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 21:55, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 11:02 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > Right now those chains are only ever called from the Damage and Composite
> > extensions, so the minimal hack might be to just always disable those in
> > Xprt; I had thought this was done already though.  The better solution
> > might be to add stub implementations to the postscript backend and see
> > what breaks. Since the ps backend clearly believes it can implement the
> > world without using fb, it might be fine to just have those calls no-op.
>
> OK, I'll focus on Xprint/ps and see what I can dig up.  I'll want to try
> to figure out why the segfault's only happening now, find what changed
> since I last tested CVS.  I might think about drawing ps back to the fb
> fold, if I can manage it.

So you're warned, that's likely to be non-trivial.  The postscript backend 
tries really hard to be vector-only; if you ever hit fb rasterisation you'll 
have to flatten out all the postscript you already received first, and then 
continue to render the rest of the job in fb only.

- ajax
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