When opening some help file with certain keywords newview will crash

[Gregg Young]

Highlight "return" and open the open watcom 2.0 C reference guide. You get the following from newview. Note if you search "return" after opening this file the same thing happens. It doesn't happen if you open the C++ guide

This application has crashed.

Access violation exception (EGPFault) occured
at CS:EIP =$0000005B:$00012154
(Details logged to W:\VAR\LOG\NewView.log)

Close application?

[Gregg Young]

Newview log entry:

Running as process: W:\ECS\BIN\NEWVIEW.EXE
5 July 2015, 16:07:55
Exception type: EGPFault
Description: Access violation exception (EGPFault) occured
at CS:EIP =$0000005B:$00012154
Location: $000120AB
Callstack:

$00012154

System version:20.45.0

OS/2 4.5

RAM: 2039 MB
Boot drive: W
Video resolution: 1024x768
Color depth: 32 bits
Video driver: GRADD: VBE2GRAD
Loaded files (2):
U:\WATCOM\BINP\HELP\clib.inf
U:\WATCOM\BINP\HELP\clr.inf
Top-level open windows: 0

[Gregg Young]

I probably should see if building the open watcom C help throws any warnings and if so see if fixing them fixes this problem. Documented this problem in the readme and help file.

[Gregg Young]

clib.inf builds without warnings using both wipfc and ipfc. The trap occurs with the inf produced by either of the compilers. Saving an ipf from newview produces a significantly smaller ipf. The diff indicates it simply failed to export part of the data most notably lists. Since it is incomplete I didn't bother to compile it as even if it didn't trap it would likely just be because of the missing data.

[Gregg Young]

Since we can't fix this in efte we need to document it. It should go in the readme and in a known issues section in the help file.

[Gregg Young]

While I don't think NewView is being actively developed I did enter a ticket there. ​http://trac.netlabs.org/newview/ticket/51

[Gregg Young]

This was a defect in wipfc. It has been fixed there.