Mailing List Archive: Showstopper bug ?

Showstopper bug ?

Aug 8, 1995, 10:16 AM

Post #1 of 6 (311 views)

-DMAXIMUM_DNS

fails miserably even to compile.

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cc: "util.c", line 827: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "static".
cc: "util.c", line 827: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "pool".
cc: "util.c", line 827: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "struct".
cc: "util.c", line 827: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "{".
cc: "util.c", line 782: error 1588: "remote_host" undefined.
cc: "util.c", line 782: warning 563: Argument #1 is not the correct type.
cc: "util.c", line 828: error 1588: "x" undefined.
cc: "util.c", line 832: error 1558: The ! operator takes a scalar operand.
cc: "util.c", line 830: error 1588: "p" undefined.
cc: "util.c", line 830: error 1532: Reference through a non-pointer.
cc: "util.c", line 830: warning 563: Argument #1 is not the correct type.
etc
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Two people reported this. One gave a patch which I'll forward in a
moment.

Also...

> From: Michael Lawley <lawley@cs.uq.oz.au>

> Also, there's a bit of casting between pointers and ints which spits out
> warnings on my Alpha for obvious reasons. After a quick glance at the code
> it looks "safe" to me, but it's still not very nice.
>
> michael

Re: Showstopper bug ? [ In reply to ]

brian at organic

Aug 8, 1995, 12:25 PM

Post #2 of 6 (309 views)

On Tue, 8 Aug 1995, Robert S. Thau wrote:
> Oh crud. This is a showstopper. Guess I'll be building a 0.8.9 this
> evening after all (with the patch, and probably the other non-controversial
> seeming bug fixes as well).

Teaches me to read my mail in alphabetical thread order rather than time...

Okay, +1 to doing an 0.8.9 tonight, and maybe another build on Friday if
there are other patches to merit it.

Brian

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Re: Showstopper bug ? [ In reply to ]

Aug 8, 1995, 12:29 PM

Post #3 of 6 (308 views)

Oh crud. This is a showstopper. Guess I'll be building a 0.8.9 this
evening after all (with the patch, and probably the other non-controversial
seeming bug fixes as well).

rst

Re: Showstopper bug ? [ In reply to ]

brian at organic

Aug 8, 1995, 2:41 PM

Post #4 of 6 (310 views)

On Tue, 8 Aug 1995, Robert S. Thau wrote:
> FWIW, Brian, I have already built a candidate 0.8.9

Yup, saw that. With 300 messages/day it's hard to read everything before
responding to a single message, but I promise to try harder.

> I'm +1 on releasing everything I tossed into that build, but I could
> certainly live with not releasing anything new until things settle down
> a bit...

In the interests of stability, I would recommend waiting until Friday for
a few more bug reports (I still need to test the DBM patch you posted).
As long as the -DMAXIMAL_DNS bug (and a patch) is put on the known-bugs
page those who need it can get it there, so I don't consider it a
showstopper. We will get a few more bugs in the next few days, I can
feel it :) I'd like to see if we could squish all the items on the "known
bugs" list while we're at it, particular the /tmp/htstatus situation.

Brian

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Re: Showstopper bug ? [ In reply to ]

Aug 8, 1995, 5:31 PM

Post #5 of 6 (310 views)

FWIW, Brian, I have already built a candidate 0.8.9 with (as you've
probably seen) a few other bug fixes which looked straightforward and
inoffensive, at least to me --- it's not on hyperreal because no one's
had a chance to look it over yet or comment on the choices I made (in
fact, I think only one person's downloaded it thus far).

I'm +1 on releasing everything I tossed into that build, but I could
certainly live with not releasing anything new until things settle down
a bit...

rst

Re: Showstopper bug ? [ In reply to ]

randy at zyzzyva

Aug 8, 1995, 7:35 PM

Post #6 of 6 (306 views)

> On Tue, 8 Aug 1995, Robert S. Thau wrote:
> > FWIW, Brian, I have already built a candidate 0.8.9
>
> Yup, saw that. With 300 messages/day it's hard to read everything before
> responding to a single message, but I promise to try harder.
>
> > I'm +1 on releasing everything I tossed into that build, but I could
> > certainly live with not releasing anything new until things settle down
> > a bit...
>
> In the interests of stability, I would recommend waiting until Friday for
> a few more bug reports (I still need to test the DBM patch you posted).
> As long as the -DMAXIMAL_DNS bug (and a patch) is put on the known-bugs
> page those who need it can get it there, so I don't consider it a
> showstopper. We will get a few more bugs in the next few days, I can
> feel it :) I'd like to see if we could squish all the items on the "known
> bugs" list while we're at it, particular the /tmp/htstatus situation.
>
> Brian

I agree with this approach. Haste makes waste... :-)