[Scummvm-devel] Bugs blocking the DS port: SAGA Engine font loading crash, Options menus crash, GMM load/save crash

[Willem Jan Palenstijn]

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