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Re: Kicking the tyres on XLIB-FFI

From: Zajcev Evgeny <zevlg@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Kicking the tyres on XLIB-FFI
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:36:03 +0300
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Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hey Evgeny!
>
> I still long to be able to run FFI XWEM, but I can't :-(
>
> I get this early on in the start up...
>
> Last error was:
> Args out of range: #<ffiobject type=(pointer Display) size=4
> fotype=0 foptr=0xad70518>, 0

And full backtrace?

Unfortunately i'm very limited right now to test .. the only thing i
can tell is that xlib-ffi works under FreeBSD 4.X, 5.X, 6.X with
libffi-1.20 installed ..

Last time i tried running xlib-ffi on bastard with libffi-2.0 i was
getting crashes, most of xlib-ffi works just fine there however events
handling mechanism, especially call to C Xlib's internal _XEnq
function - gives crash eventually ..

Before experimenting with xlib-ffi make sure you have removed native
xlib from load path, to avoid clashing (because of full compatibility
between xlib and xlib-ffi)

NOTE: xlib-ffi is buggy!  it contains MANY memory leaks, and SXEmacs
which runs xlib-ffi may eat all of your memory in couple of days ..

-- 
lg

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