ddd/lesstif crash on startup (linux amd64)

[Peeter Joot]

Bug report:

1)
$ ddd --configuration

Checking for X11 library directory... /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
Checking for XKeysymDB... /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
No configuration problems found.

2)

to get the configuration information. If this does not work, please include at 
least the DDD version, the type of machine you are using, and its
operating system name and version number.

OS:
Linux bludgeon 2.6.2 #2 Thu Feb 5 14:39:13 EST 2004 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 
GNU/Linux

3)
The debugger you are using and its version (e.g., gdb-4.17 or dbx as shipped 
with Solaris 2.6).

Name        : gdb                          Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 6.0                               Vendor: SuSE Linux AG, 
Nuernberg, Germany
Release     : 22                            Build Date: Thu Nov 20 01:16:19 2003
Install date: Tue Feb  3 13:25:46 2004      Build Host: paradies.suse.de
Group       : Development/Tools/Debuggers   Source RPM: gdb-6.0-22.src.rpm

4)

The compiler you used to compile DDD and its version (e.g., gcc-2.8.1).

g++ -v:

Reading specs from /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.2/specs
Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr 
--with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man
--libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java,ada 
--disable-checking --enable-libgcj --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/g++
--with-slibdir=/lib64 --with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit 
x86_64-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.2 (SuSE Linux)

5) core dump starting ddd:

(gdb) where
#0  initialize (request=Variable "request" is not available.
) at CascadeB.c:417
#1  0x0000002a95f7ab1d in CallInitialize () from /usr/X11R6/lib64/libXt.so.6
#2  0x0000002a95f7b60d in xtCreate () from /usr/X11R6/lib64/libXt.so.6
#3  0x0000002a95f7becb in _XtCreateWidget () from /usr/X11R6/lib64/libXt.so.6
#4  0x0000002a95f7c224 in XtCreateWidget () from /usr/X11R6/lib64/libXt.so.6
#5  0x0000002a956cdcb2 in XmCreateCascadeButton (parent=Variable "parent" is not
 available.
) at CascadeB.c:1360
#6  0x00000000004436ad in MMaddItems(_WidgetRec*, MMDesc*, bool) (
    shell=0x889a30, items=Variable "items" is not available.
) at verify.h:43
#7  0x00000000004443cc in MMcreatePulldownMenu(_WidgetRec*, char const*, MMDesc*
, Arg*, unsigned) (parent=Variable "parent" is not available.
) at ../../ddd-3.3.8/ddd/MakeMenu.C:650
#8  0x000000000044367f in MMaddItems(_WidgetRec*, MMDesc*, bool) (
    shell=0x888320, items=Variable "items" is not available.
) at strclass.h:914
#9  0x000000000044432c in MMcreateMenuBar(_WidgetRec*, char const*, MMDesc*, Arg
*, unsigned) (parent=Variable "parent" is not available.
) at ../../ddd-3.3.8/ddd/MakeMenu.C:693
#10 0x0000000000421b47 in main (argc=Variable "argc" is not available.
) at ../../ddd-3.3.8/ddd/ddd.C:2574
(gdb)

I see that this is actually trapping in the lesstif code.

Lesstif version:

lesstif-0.93.91

don't know if this is due to the way lesstif is being called or a problem in
lesstif though.