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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 30 2009 - 13:03:05 CST

Hi Rich,
  I just got back from your neck of the woods. I passed
through Livermore twice last week while I was out in California
visiting relatives. Someday I'll have to make a point to visit
the lab and some of the people I know there when I'm out that way.

Which version of AIX is your machine using? My builds on an AIX 6.x
test machine at NCSA didn't have any of these problems. I compiled
the Tcl/Tk libraries for myself, but I didn't use any particularly
unusual build flags for those compiles. In the past with certain versions
of AIX and xlc I have had to do things like override the compilation flags
to reduce optimization in order to get a stable build, but in my recent
builds on the AIX 6.x machine at NCSA I didn't need to do this.
If you can tell me which exact Tcl/Tk minor version you're using,
I can try doing a build of the same rev and see if this is a problem
with Tcl itself or an interaction with VMD and Tcl.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:08:08PM -0800, Rich Cook wrote:
> Yes, I have already done that and can give you any info you need.
>
> On Dec 17, 2009, at 5:52 PM, John Stone wrote:
>
> >
> >Rich,
> > I thought it was crashing in a Tk call, but I don't have your
> >traceback in front of me, so that was my vague recollection. If it
> >is dying in Tcl itself, then we're going to have to figure out what
> >is actually going on there. Can you recompile your Tcl/Tk library
> >with
> >debugging symbols enabled (i.e. by adding -g to the compilation
> >flags)?
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John
> >
> >On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:35:12PM -0800, Rich Cook wrote:
> >>It crashes when I disable Tk in the same place as before. I'm
> >>confused, because you are telling me to disable Tk but it is crashing
> >>in a Tcl call. Is that intentional? I'm recompiling without Tcl
> >>and
> >>without Tk just to see what happens...
> >>
> >
> >--
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> >Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> >University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> >Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
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> >
>
>
> /* A function that takes a single integer argument and returns
> a pointer to a function that takes two integer arguments and
> returns a floating-point number. */
> float (*func2(int a))(int, int);
> Rich Cook
> rcook_at_llnl.gov
>
>
> 

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Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078