[Gdal-dev] Please try this ECW 3.1-rc2 patch for linux/posix

[Bill Binko]

Sorry, I forgot to say what the problem it fixes is ....

When you run gdalinfo (or anything else that uses an ECWDataset), it hangs 
when the destructor gets called about 80% of the time (on my box -- YMMV).

Bill

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Bill Binko wrote:

> 
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I found what I think is a problem in the ECW libraries (version 3.1-rc2).  
> Basically, they are not initializing a boolean attribute of a class to 
> zero (FALSE).  This means that if you test with the debug version of the 
> library, it works (GCC initializes it) and if you work with the optimized 
> version, it doesn't.
> 
> So, I put together a patch that seems to fix the problem.  I'm attaching 
> it to this message.
> 
> Please let me know if this helps, or if there are more occurrences of 
> this.  I have posted this to the ERMapper forum, so hopefully, it will 
> make it into the 3.1 release.
> 
> Bill
>