[M3devel] Release impacts, was: Re: report on Windows XP builds/tests

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu>:

> On 2 Sep 2009, at 00:20, Jay K wrote:
>
>> My fear is that I messed up when I factored sizeof(pthread_cond_t),  
>>  sizeof(pthread_mutex_t), etc. out of the Modula-3 code.
>> The code looks right, but it is easy to miss a level of   
>> indirection, or something.
>> We also might as well wrap the last few that aren't wrapped, but no  
>>  reason to believe that will fix anything.
>
> We'll need to look into this.  The weird thing is that it *mostly*
> works.  I'd have thought getting those wrong would break everywhere.
> Still, probably worth rechecking.

If something this fundamental is broken in the runtime, we can
probably forget all the RC3 packages built so far and just hope
for RC4?

Why has nobody noticed this before? We really need some more tests
that are able to detect such breakage.

Olaf
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