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The amount of ABADCAFE in the log somewhat points to usage of uninitialized memory

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After updating the Kernel via AmiUpdate in the last couple of weeks my Hollywood application Jack has become unstable. Define "unstable". Crashes ? Which ones ? DSI ? ISI ? Crashlog ? What machine ? There were some memory copy related changes recently, did you set the appropriate flags in...

Now, any beta tester, or even developer (:-o !!!) willing to risk their reputation by repeating this very very simple test case in a 100% controlled situation/environment causing a pretty certain lockup? ;-) Remember that the source code is included so you can verify that the code is not at fault. ...

Question: Did it work prior to Update 4 ?

I just made a very simple CLI tool to test memory allocations using MEMF_VIRTUAL. http://hem.bredband.net/deniil/files/swaptest.lha Why MEMF_VIRTUAL ? Have you actually checked the autodocs ? If yes, where does it even mention MEMF_VIRTUAL ? MEMF_VIRTUAL is NOT for memory allocations. Use either ME...

But on the other hand it would make sense if AllocVecTags() doesn't allow impossible combinations, returning NULL instead of an allocated object that is known to be crashing the next instruction. See my post again. As I said, it shouldn't crash, so I would like to see the crash it produces, or mayb...

I can't but rephrase that i am rather disappointed that "the SDK does not provide more in detecting wong input to functions with a limited number of acceptable parameter values" If the easiest solution to this means that such library functions should be rewritten to fail more gracefully a...

It's a problem of the forum software. Nothing that can be done about it.

Suggestion: Click a Cursor Position on a CLI command. example: workbench:> assign work:test/ Click with the Mouse on w of "work" to change it to backup What would that actually do ? Where does "backup" come from and how should the mouseclick know what to exchange the word for ?

I rechecked now: -lauto is not mentioned but obviously works end is helpfull in the porting from OS3 to OS4. It would be good that the gcc --help mentions it. -lauto is not a command line obtion, actually... -l is, and that's documented. All -lauto does is to link with libauto.a So a) "-lauto&...