[gdal-dev] Building with SEH

[Martin Chapman]

Even,

I am using gdal 1.5.0 on windows xp pro and the buggy shape did indeed crash
my application.  I see the fix but I was wondering if there will be a 1.5.1
release soon?  Also, thanks for the info on this fix.

Best regards,
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Even Rouault
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:24 PM
To: Chris Howell
Cc: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Building with SEH

I won't really answer on the SEH part. I think that you'll still have to
live 
with the fact that a remaining bug may cause memory corruption etc that will

cause bugs elsewhere, etc... My experience showed me that If you really want

to be sure that some library won't crash your application, the only reliable

solution is to link it to a process with which your main application 
communicates through TCP/IP, pipes, or whatever... Or to provide enough 
information to help us fix the bugs.
So, as far as broken shapefiles are concerned, there's a pending patch to 
shapelib attached to http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2218. This would be 
great if you could test it on your broken shapefiles and report if that 
solves your problem.

Best regards,
Even
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