Hi all, Several users have reported over the past few weeks various crashes when running GDAL, in particular in OGRFeature::GetFieldAsString(). It has been finally identified that it was due to stricter guard logic in GCC that was enabled in Ubuntu 8.10 and later versions because -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is set by default and is activated when -O is set to 2 or higher. A similar issue was detected in DTEDDataset::CreateCopy() a few weeks ago and was also fixed.
The fixes have been applied to current development version, 1.6 stable branch and 1.5 branch. Please refer to http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2896 and http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2824 if you need to apply the relevant patches without waiting for next stable releases. However, it might be possible that similar issues still remain, especially in less popular drivers, so please report it. Best regards, Even _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
