[OTR-dev] gaim-otr for Windows
alex323
alex323 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 11:33:59 EST 2005
When do you plan on releasing?
Ian Goldberg wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:32:03PM -0500, Ian Goldberg wrote:
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>>As I said, it works correctly for me (under wine). Now, is it possible
>>that crashes would happen if someone had different versions of the above
>>libraries from the ones I scrounged around on the web for?
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>w00t!
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>A whole lot of fprintfs later, I tracked down the bug.
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>It was actually a bug in libgcrypt's randomness gatherer: the win32
>version walks the memory heap table and adds everything in it to the
>randomness pool. But adding things to the pool can change the table.
>If the change is to add something after the place in the table you're
>currently scanning, you get an infinite loop.
>
>I've patched the win32 libgcrypt, and sent a fix to the maintainers.
>Since we statically link libgcrypt on win32, there's no problem, and
>we'll just link in the fixed version.
>
>Yay! gaim-otr now works on Windows.
>
> - Ian
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