[Liblas-devel] lasinfo, las2las, las2txt with no argument bombs

[Howard Butler]

On Feb 20, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Peder Axensten wrote:

> I've just installed liblas 1.6 with tools. When I use libinfo with no arguments (I wanted to get the version info) it got a memory issue:
> 
> $ lasinfo
> Input LAS file not specified!
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>    lasinfo (libLAS 1.6.0 with GeoTIFF 1.3.0 GDAL 1.8.0 LASzip 1.0.1)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> lasinfo options:
> lasinfo(21384) malloc: *** error for object 0x7fff70717500: pointer being freed was not allocated
> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>  -h [ --help ]         produce help messageAbort trap
> 
> This does not happen if I give it a file. Same thing with las2las, las2txt, but not with the -old variants.
> 
> Is this a known issue?

Peder,

Which version of Boost are you using?  If I recall correctly, there was a bug in older versions of program_options, which is what libLAS is using in lasinfo to output help information and parse commandline arguments.  

Howard

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