JPEG can cause the main app to segfault fairly easily. There's a few reports regarding this, but the easiest I found to reproduce was: create big image, open layers/channels dialog, save as jpeg. Click the quality slider repeatedly until segfault. It is gimp itself segfaulting, not the plug-in. I'm pretty sure it has to do with the preview code not getting time to update the thumbnail before moving on, but I've not confirmed that. There's probably more going on as well, because putting a check for validity in those routines doesn't stop all them (but does most of them). Also some concern that this is more pervasive and may create some of the "random" crashes sometimes reported. Of all the ones listed, I think this is the one people will run into the most. JPEG is kinda a popular format, and people will want to play with the snazzy preview features. Seth Burgess sjburges@xxxxxxxx --- Austin Donnelly <austin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday, 31 Oct 2000, Manish Singh wrote: > > > GIMP 1.1.29 is out there. This is a release > candidate for 1.2. So scream > > if you see any major brokenness. > > Uh, well, there's at least: > > #17904: rounding error in calculation of selection > boundary > Subject: gimp; Severity: grave; Reported by: Austin > Donnelly > <austin@xxxxxxxx>; merged with #22375; 99 days old. > > #17906: layer move mouse handling not pixel-perfect > Subject: gimp; Severity: grave; Reported by: Austin > Donnelly <austin@xxxxxxxx>; 99 days old. > > #25272: [gimp-bug] The thumbnails (.xvpics) do not > always match the image. > Subject: gimp; Severity: grave; Reported by: > quinet@xxxxxxxxxx; 41 days old. > (and this bug is actually the tip of a can of worms; > see the recent > discussion on this list) > > #27786: screenshot plugin on Solaris takes bus error > on exit > Subject: gimp; Severity: grave; Reported by: Austin > Donnelly <austin@xxxxxxxx>; 19 days old. > (this one is actually a bit more complex that that, > and it probably > affects other platforms too, it's just that Solaris > feels it > particularly badly). > > > I'm pretty sure there's other equally serious bugs: > these are just my > favourites. > > On the bright side, I don't think we have any > easily-reproducible > segfaults in the main application. If anyone knows > of any, shout now! > > Austin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!?
