Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Patch for crash in main.c on Win2K

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From: Dinesh G Dutt <ddutt@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:54:33 -0800
I can't seem to reproduce it now. I removed the change, did a make clean
followed by a make and the problem didn't occur. Strange. Maybe I didn't do a
"make clean" last night.

Anyway, sorry for the inconvenience,

Dinesh
Guy Harris writes:
 > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:08:54PM -0700, Dinesh G Dutt wrote:
 > > With the latest source checked out, I ran into a crash in main.c which got
 > > fixed by this patch.
 > 
 > What's the stack trace from the crash, and how did you produce it?
 > That's a "can't happen" crash, except perhaps if you're editing your
 > preferences - the argument passed to "boldify()" should never *be* null.
 > (prefs.gui_font_name is initialized to point to a string, so even if
 > there's no font name in your preferences file, it should be set.)

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