Re: XFree86 server dies during test of tk4.1a2

David Dawes (dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au)
Wed, 6 Dec 1995 14:05:12 +1100 (EST)

> Well I've narrowed down further the problem with signal 8 killing
> the server. To reproduce just do:
>
> x11perf -wellipse10

I've seen this sort of thing happen when cbrt() can't handle being passed
a negative argument. Is there a cbrt() in libm, or are you using the
one in xc/programs/Xserver/mi/cbrt.c? If the latter, make sure it is
a version that doesn't try to pass a negative first argument to pow().

> The problem with xterm's dieing is a bug in xterm (IMHO), I've
> made the attached patch to the ansi R6 xterm (available on ftp.x.org
> in the contrib area or

Thanks for the xterm patch.

David