Re: lynx-dev dev.10 progress

[Leonid Pauzner]

24-Nov-2002 19:15 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:43:28PM +0300, Leonid Pauzner wrote:
>> 19-Nov-2002 21:01 Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>
>> > It's something to do with the pool-allocation.  valgrind is probably 
>> > showing
>> > me the problem that I'm looking for, e.g., this (repeated a lot of times):
>>
>> Still I cannot figure the source of problems with line->date .

> I have an idea about it (perhaps a mistaken sense of how the pool logic
> works),
> but haven't found time to debug it yet.  This has been one of those months
> where lots of programs are broken, so the ones that I've been working on are
> the ones where the broken code is already released.

When in lack of time, it may be reasonable to release dev10 shortly
by postponing pool changes to dev11 cycle (it is just an optimization
after all).


>> Try the attached patch. It reverts changes related to allocation of lines
>> in pool. Perhaps this will help to isolate the problem since the patch is
>> relatively small and straight forward. (Allocation of anchors left in pool).
>>
>> [Also I would like to ask you to add -p flag to diff command
>> when creating snapshots or patches at lynx.isc.org/current/
>> so it became more readable with a function names.]

> diff -p sounds fine, but it doesn't seem to work for lynx (probably
> gets confused by the PUBLIC and PRIVATE markers).

No, diff -u -p works fine in most cases (sometimes it gets confused by
#if #else; no problem with PUBLIC or PRIVATE).

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> Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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