On 11.06.19 22:13, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:

Is anybody still using mac_OS 10.6 that could help me test if my ELSE externals are loading fine?

i did my test by loading the "All_objects.pd" file (unless otherwise indicated). i used "-stderr" to catch error messages. no other externals were loaded. tests were done on a MacMini running OSX-10.6.8, with Pd-0.49-1 installed in the amd64, i386 and ppc variants.

some observations:

• the fat binaries don't contain PowerPC binaries (only i386 and amd64) (so they obviously won't load on a PPC variant of Pd)

• when loading more than ~140 externals, i get spurious shutdowns.

re-running usually make them go away (most often after the first attempt, sometimes it takes longer). i have no idea where these might come from. afaict, i don't get any indication of an error (no printout, no error code).

• the following object make more serious trouble.

for testing i had temporarily removed the binaries of the problematic objects from the else/ directory (with all the other externals still there), and enabled them one by one:

[rec~] -- on amd64, after loading this object Pd will stop to work: the patch containing this object won't show up, Cmd-Q and the like won't do anything (i get visual feedback that the keys were pressed, but they don't actually do anything) -- on i386 i get the following error:

pd(86904,0xa06de540) malloc: *** mmap(size=2511978496) failed (error
code=12)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
pd: getbytes() failed -- out of memory

[shaper~], [table~] on both amd64 and i386 i get an error

else/shaper~ error: ... didn't return a patchable object

if i instead try to load the help-patch of the object, it seems to always crash (on both architectures) with exit code 139

[wavetable~] similar to above, although All_objects.txt almost *always* exit (with an exit code of 139)

[wt~] loading "All_objects.pd" always exits on i386 (with exit code 0), but not on amd64, where i get the error:

else/wt~ error: ... didn't return a patchable object

funnily enough i can load the "wavetale~-help.pd" patch on both architectures (although i get the "not a patchable object" error in both cases.

gfmasdr IOhannes