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

[Jay K]

we can't answer the question until we determine the problem! :)
 
 - Jay




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> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 08:49:47 +0200
> From: wagner at elegosoft.com
> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: [M3devel] Release impacts, was: Re: report on Windows XP builds/tests
>
> Quoting Tony Hosking :
>
>> 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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