[Scummvm-devel] Bugs blocking the DS port: SAGA Engine font loading crash, Options menus crash, GMM load/save crash
Willem Jan Palenstijn
wjp at usecode.org
Mon May 16 11:34:44 CEST 2011
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:46:01AM +0100, Neil Millstone wrote:
> Hi Team,
>
> I wonder if anyone could offer me some input onto three crash bug which
> I'm looking at right now for the DS port. These are all in areas of the
> code that I'm not familiar with so I'd like to get some input from the
> authors, if possible. I'm cc'ing who I think are the authors.
>
> 1.
>
> Inherit the Earth in the Saga engine now doesn't run on the DS, crashing
> to a white screen (it's a wierd kind of crash which I can't trap).
>
> I spent hours reverting to older versions of ScummVM and building until
> I came accross the commit that broke the build. It's this one:
>
> * SAGA: replace Font "::*alloc" & "::free" with Common::Array
> https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/commit/1bd1a253f0bdc063b4795a68fab52e2d98d2f181
>
> I can't see any problems with it, but if someone who knows the code
> better than me can take a look at it, I would be very grateful.
Is there any way you could get information on where/when exactly it crashes?
(Maybe with printfs, or stepping through the code in a debugger?)
It would already be very helpful to know if it crashes when loading/initializing
the plugin/engine, or when loading the fonts, or when using the fonts, or...
-Willem Jan
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