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Subject: Re: What leads to "Surrounding object damaged!"
Date: 19 May 1999 09:13:12 -0000
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Holger Tuerk writes:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> our guienv-program heavily uses pixmaps, which are to be read into
> memory on startup. However, readXPMfile refuses to load all the XPM
> files. Strangely, it always fails on the 59th file (There ist nothing
> special with it. It can be interchanged without any effect.).
>  The program crashes and this dump file is generated:
> 
....
> 
> 
> Now I am wondering, what circumstances could have led to this
> malfunction:
>   item <*> in ~beta/guienv/v1.6/private/X11/pixmapbody
>     -- Surrounding object (0x27cca8) damaged!
> 
> Can someone help me?

Don't worry about that. This is caused by the construct

-- pixMapRead: doPart --
do l: (# expandedName: ^text;
         format: @integer;
         msg: ^text;
      do name[] -> expandPixmapName
.....

which the stack dumper did not handle correctly in your version of the system.
That is only an error in the dump.

About the ReadXPM error: Did your program print any diagnostics to the console?

Sincerely,

Peter Andersen, Mjolner Informatics