[Github-comments] [geany/geany] geany would not open (Windows 10) (#2639)

Colomban Wendling notifications at xxxxx
Sat Nov 7 21:43:51 UTC 2020


> Yeah but I was wondering about @lmforget, @Bergamask and @Chicopower who had problems with the original 1.37 installer but got it working with the "-2" installer. This might indicate there was additionally an independent problem.

As @Chicopower said, they might all have tried something else in between and then had the config file and wouldn't hit the issue.
But even if they did not, I wouldn't be totally surprised if another set of libraries did not lead to a crash.  I'm not sure how Windows behaves in this regard, but usually reading arbitrary memory like this leads to unpredictable results, not necessarily a crash. Could be that that other set of libraries result in a memory mapping with a zero byte (string terminator) close to the address that gets read before hitting a memory violation.  Or maybe not, but well, I wouldn't bet anything on that horse.  My point is: don't sweat it looking for another problem yet, it's more than likely that #2645 is the answer.  But sure, getting them to try the version with the meaningful fix is a good idea for sure, then we'll have a better idea :)

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