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- From: jdh@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: bad GL code locks up 4D-25
- Message-ID: <101064@bu.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 02:04:00 GMT
- Sender: news@bu.edu
- Organization: Boston University, Information Technology
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- Recently someone brought to my attention a smallish (~560 line) GL
- program that not only locks up the console on our 4D-25s, but
- completely hangs the whole machine (no response from pinging them;
- you have to hit the reset button...)
-
- Now, I'll admit that the code is almost certainly buggy, and I do
- realize that bad GL code can lock up the grahics console, but what
- about hanging the whole machine?
-
- As an aside, it appears that the program is probably calling ortho2()
- with bad parameters, but that's *not* really what I care about. I'm
- more concerned about the machine hanging!
-
- As an aside, if it's run on the Indigo, it spews out errors:
-
- ERROR #4 ortho2: ERR_BADWINDOW
-
- and doesn't hang, but, as I say, that's not the issue..
-
- So, obviously this hanging thing is very bad, but (as a practical
- matter) should it be reported to the hotline? Maybe a better way
- to phrase the question would be: is this a known problem with the
- older machines, with no possible fix?
-
- The release is 4.0.5 (and 4.0.1 as well)
-
- Talk to me California...
-
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