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or you had the broken HDS that I fixed a few hours ago.... On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, David Berry wrote: > Peter, > I'm currently doing a complete CVS build from scratch on my new 64 > bit laptop. All went well until it got to sst, when prohlp got a segvio. > Poking about using the debugger revealed that it was crashing in > rec_attach_file.c at the line > > hds_gl_64bit = ( rec_ga_fcv[ slot ].hds_version > REC__VERSION3 ); > > because "slot" had a huge value. What seemed to be happening was that > an error had occurred previously, causing rec_open_file to return > without action, leaving "slot" in an uninitialised state. Maybe > rec_open_file should initialise a safe value for "slot" before checking > the inherited status. > > David > > > PS I tried making this modification myself, but funnily enough, the > problem then went away (i.. no error was reported and there was no > segvio). I then deleted my hds checkout and did a fresh checkout and > built it again. But the problem still did not recurr. Presumably I've got > some state information somewhere left over which is preventing the problem > from occurring. > -- Tim Jenness JAC software http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj