RE: XOpenIM can you confirm?

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> Sorry for cross posting to Cygwin list.
>
> I am currently complaining about X11R6.4 from the archive
> 01.11.99  14:21  13 988 682 cygwin-xfree-x11r6.4-cygwin-B20.1.tar.bz2
> from the directory "cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries/".
> This one you mean is bad?

Yes, it inherited XopenIM from X11R6.4

You need the the xfree86 binaries from xc-4-binaries directory


>
> I have another X11R6.4 archive which seems to be newer according to
> the time of the creation:
> 27.12.99  17:56   16 461 671 B20_X11R6_4.tar.gz
> from "ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/packages/
> X11R6.4/B20_X11R6_4.tar.gz"
> It is recommended by
> http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/grads/win32/X11R6.4
> Should I use this instead?

Those are not from me, therefore I do not know if XOpenIM bug
xc/lib/X11/im.c was fixed.
I reported this bug first time at the XFree86 developers list.

Suhaib


>
> Thanks for help
> Pavel Kudrna.
>
> On 30 May 2000, at 8:19, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >
> > You need to post only to Cygwin-Xfree.  Please do not CC to Cygwin list.
> > Most of Cygwin users subscribe to Cygwin-XFree list therefore do not
> > like duplicate messages from multiple listings.  Thanks.
> >
> > Which version of X libs from Cygwin-Xfree project are you using?
> > If it is X11R6.4 then yes, there was a bug in X11R6.4
> libraries.  The bug
> > existed in the stock X11R6.4 distributed by X.org.
> >
> > If you are using X11R6 libs from XFree86 ports, from xc-4-binaries
> > directory, then it had been fixed.  I fixed this a while ago in
> our sources
> > and this fix should appear in  stock XFree86 4.0.1 future release too.
> > The XOpenIM bug was causing memory coruptions.
> >
> > Suhaib
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Pavel
> > > Kudrna
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 8:10 AM
> > > To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com; cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > > Subject: XOpenIM can you confirm?
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello !
> > > Please can you confirm that following example (~14 lines) crashes
> > > calling XOpenIM (->STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION) not only under my
> > > instalation of cygwin?
> > >
> > > I did update of my instalation yesterday (may 25) with setup-1.45.
> > > The output of cygcheck utility is appended.
> > > Thanks
> > > Pavel Kudrna.
> > >
> > >
> > > bash2.03 ~ $ gcc qr.c -g -lX11 -L/usr/X11R6.4/lib
> > > bash2.03 ~ $ a
> > > Hello !
> > > Display: 0xa0412c0
> > >       0 [main] a 1053 handle_exceptions: Exception:
> > >         STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
> > >     576 [main] a 1053 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to
> > >         a.exe.stackdump
> > > bash2.03 ~ $
> > >
> > >
> > > #include <stdio.h>
> > > #include <X11/Xlib.h>
> > >
> > > int main(void)
> > > {
> > >  Display *display;
> > >  XIM input_method;
> > >
> > >  printf("Hello !\n");
> > >  display = XOpenDisplay("localhost:0.0");
> > >  printf("Display: %p\n", display);
> > >
> > >  input_method=XOpenIM(display, NULL, NULL, NULL);
> > >
> > >  printf("Input method: %p\n",input_method);
> > >  return 0;
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
> > > Current System Time: Tue May 30 13:27:32 2000
> > > WinNT Ver 4.0 build 1381 Service Pack 6
> > > Path:	.
> > > 	/usr/bin
> > > 	/usr/local/bin
> > > 	/usr/X11R6.4/bin
> > > SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32
> > > WinDir: C:\WINNT
> > > HOME = `/home/kudrna'
> > > MAKE_MODE = `unix'
> > > PWD = `/home/kudrna'
> > > TCL_LIBRARY = `/usr/share/tcl8.0'
> > >
> > > a:  fd           N/A    N/A
> > > c:  hd  FAT     2047Mb  99% CP    UN
> > > d:  fd           N/A    N/A
> > >
> > > c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin  /usr/bin  user    binmode
> > > c:\progra~1\cygwin\lib  /usr/lib  user    binmode
> > > c:\progra~1\cygwin  /        user    binmode
> > > c:\temp  /temp    user    binmode
> > >
> > > Found: c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
> > > Found: c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
> > > Found: c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
> > > Found: c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\find.exe
> > > Found: c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
> > > Found: c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe
> > > Found: c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\ld.exe
> > > Found: c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
> > > Found: c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\make.exe
> > > Found: c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\sh.exe
> > >
> > >   115k 1999/09/14 c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\cygitcl30.dll
> > >    63k 1999/09/14 c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\cygitk30.dll
> > >   474k 1999/09/14 c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\cygtcl80.dll
> > >    19k 1999/09/14 c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\cygtclpip80.dll
> > >    24k 1999/09/14 c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\cygtclreg80.dll
> > >   768k 1999/09/14 c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\cygtk80.dll
> > >   569k 2000/05/15 c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
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