[M3devel] frequently recurring emails

[Michael Anderson]

...looking into it.

-Mike

Quoting Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:

>
> I don't know what is happening here but I don't think it is from me.
>
> On my end:
>
>   - none of the messages are signed "phone" so not phone
>
>   - I turned my phone off for hours so not phone
>
> ?
>
>
>
>  - Jay
>
>
>> To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
>> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 21:12:20 -0800
>> From: mika at async.async.caltech.edu
>> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] This is a pixmap?
>>
>>
>> Why is this message looping over and over? This and another from
>> Jay of the same day.. I must have received hundreds of copies by now.
>> The messages are dated September 3 and 4.
>>
>> Mika
>>
>> Jay K writes:
>> >--_b2b74cea-5620-4d48-92d7-cba16dcb3507_
>> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>> >
>> >
>> >Trying again due to truncation.
>> >
>> >=20
>> >
>> > - Jay
>> >=20
>> >
>> >
>> >From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
>> >To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>> >Subject: This is a pixmap?
>> >Date: Thu=2C 3 Sep 2009 15:44:17 +0000
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Does this look like a pixmap to anyone?
>> >This is the parameter to Win32 Join.
>> >=20
>> >PROCEDURE Join(t: T): REFANY =3D
>> > VAR res: REFANY=3B
>> > BEGIN
>> > LOCK threadMu DO
>> > IF t.joined THEN Die(ThisLine()=2C "attempt to join with thread twice=
>> >")=3B END=3B
>> > WHILE NOT t.completed DO Wait(threadMu=2C t.cond) END=3B
>> > res :=3D t.result=3B
>> > t.result :=3D NIL=3B
>> > t.joined :=3D TRUE=3B
>> > t.cond :=3D NIL=3B
>> > IF perfOn THEN PerfChanged(t.id=2C State.dead) END=3B
>> > END=3B
>> > RETURN res=3B
>> > END Join=3B
>> >
>> >Very very often the crash is of the form of reading a pointer from  
>>  16 bytes=
>> > into t and dereferencing it=2C plus or minus 4.
>> >t is at @ebp + here.
>> >The pointer then is 00200000 at the start of the second line of   
>> the second =
>> >dump.
>> >=20
>> >If we can confirm this is pixmap=2C we can hunt more around in the  
>>  gui code=
>



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