Sorry for not replying, this was getting annoying to track down. It's not directly an OnStep issue, but seems to be a more general LX200telescope one.
There are 2 ways to fix it.
First a description of the problem:
It's these two lines in lx200telescope.cpp @about 684:
IText *tp = IUFindText(&SiteNameTP, names[0]);
IUSaveText(tp, texts[0]); IDSetText(&SiteNameTP, "Site name updated");
It will then crash when these lines are called about 870, actually on the IDSetSwitch(&SiteNameTP, nullptr) when it tries to send it out, but the reason is:
if (isSimulation())
IUSaveText(&SiteNameTP.tp[0], "Sample Site");
else {
getSiteName(PortFD, SiteNameTP.tp[0].text, currentSiteNum);
Now, The reason it crashes is that IUSaveText will reallocate the string length to strlen()+1 (for null) It's originally allocated as (about 1225):
SiteNameT[0].text = new char[64];
IUSaveText does this (literally the only line function):
tp->text = strcpy(realloc(tp->text, strlen(newtext) + 1), newtext);
So as long as the getSiteName method of calling the pointer directly (SiteNameTP.tp[0].text) is used, and no IUSaveText is, it's good. When it's used as the getSiteName, (Changing sites) it has a shortened string, and dies when trying to send the XML out. Which is why it only dies only after a change of site, and fetches the changed to site's name.
First fix is to avoid reallocation in the set function :
strncpy(SiteNameTP.tp[0].text,texts[0],64);
IDSetText(&SiteNameTP, "Site name updated");
The Second is to modify the getSiteName to also use IUSaveText:
if (isSimulation())
IUSaveText(&SiteNameTP.tp[0], "Sample Site"); //Update this as well? Under sim, it doesn't seem to crash.
else {
//getSiteName(PortFD, SiteNameTP.tp[0].text, currentSiteNum); //Original Call
char temp_site_name[64] = {0};
getSiteName(PortFD, temp_site_name, currentSiteNum);
IText *tp = IUFindText(&SiteNameTP, "Name"); //Should change the line ( IUFillText(&SiteNameT[0], "Name", "", "");) so it's not just 'Name'?
IUSaveText(tp, temp_site_name);
}
@knro, Any preference on which way is more proper/better for INDI? It looks like lx200pulsar2.cpp uses the getSiteName method and if the 2nd solution is chosen it would need to be updated as well. I'm inclined to use the first solution, as it's simpler, and there seem to be a few
