fix for bug-buddy crash
Not directly evolution-related, but not having bug-buddy working makes
debugging much harder, so I'm mentioning it here anyway:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285726
Note that the root-cause of the bug-buddy crash is actually libhttp.so
in gnome-vfs2 so I assume the bug really affects anything that wants
to make an http connection via VFS. Not that I understand any of
this. ;-)
I can't resist to mention that this bug would have been found
trivially if the build-logs on a 64-bit machine were post-processed
with my check-implicit-pointer script (attached below for
convenience...).
--david
-------------------
#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Copyright (c) 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
# David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
#
# Scan standard input for GCC warning messages that are likely to
# source of real 64-bit problems. In particular, see whether there
# are any implicitly declared functions whose return values are later
# interpreted as pointers. Those are almost guaranteed to cause
# crashes.
#
import re
import sys
implicit_pattern = re.compile("([^:]*):(\d+): warning: implicit declaration "
+ "of function `([^']*)'")
pointer_pattern = re.compile(
"([^:]*):(\d+): warning: "
+ "("
+ "(assignment"
+ "|initialization"
+ "|return"
+ "|passing arg \d+ of `[^']*'"
+ "|passing arg \d+ of pointer to function"
+ ") makes pointer from integer without a cast"
+ "|"
+ "cast to pointer from integer of different size)")
last_implicit_filename = ""
last_implicit_linenum = -1
last_implicit_func = ""
while True:
line = sys.stdin.readline()
if line == '':
break
m = implicit_pattern.match(line)
if m:
last_implicit_filename = m.group(1)
last_implicit_linenum = int(m.group(2))
last_implicit_func = m.group(3)
else:
m = pointer_pattern.match(line)
if m:
pointer_filename = m.group(1)
pointer_linenum = int(m.group(2))
if (last_implicit_filename == pointer_filename
and last_implicit_linenum == pointer_linenum):
print "Function `%s' implicitly converted to pointer at " \
"%s:%d" % (last_implicit_func, last_implicit_filename,
last_implicit_linenum)
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