Re: NEED HELP: My program dies only on Onyx

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Wed, 20 May 1998 10:57:22 -0700

Marcus Barnes wrote:
>
> On May 20, 10:11am, TaiSun kang wrote:
> >I suspect that textures are not freed well on Onyx.
> >Running program with scene descriptions files wit no textures
> >worked well. I am freeing textures with codes like
> >
> > pfDelete( tex );
> > if ( tex->getRef() == 0 )
> ^^^
> You are accessing potentially free memory here.
>
> > {
> > tex->freeImage();
> > tex->apply();
> > }
>
> Change this to:
>
> if ( tex->getRef() == 0 )
> {
> tex->freeImage();
> tex->apply();
> pfDelete( tex );
> }
>

You probably don't want to call apply.
You are effectively deleting the currently bound texture.
Maybe something elegant happens but it seems like the wrong
thing to do (without checking Performer internals).

Cheers,Angus.

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