[aur-general] algoscore

[Nathan O]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Philipp Überbacher
<hollunder at lavabit.com>wrote:

> Excerpts from Christopher Brannon's message of 2010-08-25 20:12:38 +0200:
> > Philipp Überbacher <hollunder at lavabit.com> writes:
> >
> > > As it happens, this article about algoscore says that it does require
> > > either -O2 or -O3 as CFLAGS:
> > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/algoscore-music-numbers
> >
> > Sorry, but this doesn't seem plausible.
> > I did get some useful output from valgrind.
> > The invalid reads and writes are happening in src/nasal/hash.c, at line
> > 132, in the resize function.  The malloc call in that function doesn't
> > seem to be allocating enough memory.  The author is aligning his
> > pointers, and the malloc call doesn't account for the padding.
> > I added a fudge factor to malloc's size argument.
> > The patch is here: <http://pastebin.ca/1925235>.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I can't do much to test this program, but I can say that
> > it no longer crashes with a backtrace.
> >
> > -- Chris
>
> The strange thing here is that it didn't crash when it was built from
> ROX-filer, which I believe just executes AppRun, a simple shell script
> to compile algoscore.
>
> One thing that causes it to crash here is 'csound_test.as' in the
> examples folder. The midi_test.as example works fine though.
> --
> Philipp
>
> --
> "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu
> und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
>
> Does anybody want to take over algoscore
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23577 ? I can't get it to work no
matter what I try, or delete the package.

Thanks