[Bf-committers] I found a GHOSTBuster ;)

[Campbell Barton]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Jürgen Herrmann <shadowrom at me.com> wrote:
> I finally found the crashing factor in GHOST Win32 on Win8.
> It was a nasty GetWindowLong that should have been a GetWindowLongPtr.
>
> I tested the change in MSVC 2008, 2010 and 2012. Everything seems to work fine and smooth.
>
> I'll upload 3 test builds and the patch to my site. This could take a while due to a slow Internet connection.
>
> Now I'll focus on fixing OpenCOLLADA and libmv compilation. Maybe I'll find time to build cuda binaries with 2012 too, this guide looks promising:
>
> http://blog.norture.com/2012/10/gpu-parallel-programming-in-vs2012-with-nvidia-cuda/
>
> If someone wants to try: http://shadowrom.de
>
> Jürgen

Good to hear you found the problem,
Sounds like this fix should be applied to trunk too?, could you make a
patch available?

Out of curiosity what made this problem so hard to track down?

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- Campbell