Re: [pygame] More DirectX related problems

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I will do that. And this first showed up only recently, once 
before. It was after I added repeated pygame.init()/quit() calls to 
surfarray_test.py. I suspect there is a connection.

Lenard

René Dudfield wrote:
> hi,
>
> I'd recommend setting up an environment variable to make windib the
> default for you whilst you debug this issue.
>
> My guess is that memory is getting overwritten somewhere causing the crash.
>
> cu,
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Yes, I agree it's likely buggy code. But are the problems in SDL or Pygame?
> > Possibly both. I am guessing that any DirectX related SDL bugs are a
> > write-off. The developers have no intentions of fixing them. Of course we
> > should continue cleaning up Pygame. The init function looks problematic.
> > Let's hope that helps.
> >
> > Lenard
> >
> >
> > René Dudfield wrote:
> >     
> > > hey,
> > >
> > > sure, windows sometimes corrupts itself.  Nothing new there.
> > > Especially if the code you are working on passes in incorrect values,
> > > and is overwriting memory it shouldn't.
> > >
> > > It is easy to crash many machines with a few well crafted opengl,
> > > directx (or other video API) calls.
> > >
> > >
> > > If using non-buggy code, that doesn't do buffer overwrites and such I
> > > think you wouldn't have as many problems with directx.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >       
> > > > I just had personal confirmation that SDL, maybe with the help of Pygame,
> > > > does have DirectX issues. After repeated runs of surfarray_test.py and
> > > > related programs my antiquated system... reached the point that a simple
> > > > pygame.init() call would segfault.


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Lenard Lindstrom
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