Re: [Gnash-dev] Appeal for help - please do a quick test

[Rob Savoye]

Udo Giacomozzi wrote:
> Can somebody please do me a *HUGE* favour and do a simple test? It's
> just comparing two CVS versions. Takes about a minute of typing and about
> 10 minutes of build time. Please!! Thanks!!!

  For a further test, try comparing the release-0.8.0 branch with cvs
head. You can checkout a branch using "cvs co -r release-0.8.0 gnash". I
believe I fixed the problem, this test will tell for sure. If it's what
I think it was (my testing verifies this) one of the configure tests in
configure.ac (for the proper formatting character to print a size_t)
causing weird side effects. This appears to cause odd, but reproducible
problems with some of the tests on some platforms, or with some compiler
versions. The current ugly hack works with all compiler versions on all
the platforms I've tested on so far. I'd like to know if it breaks any
of the BSDs...

  For now I've hacked SIZET_FMT in the release branch to be "%ud". This
may generate some warnings (no errors) on some machines, but should also
be a noticeable amount faster then cvs HEAD. If this turns out to be
valid for other folks, then I'll write a better test for this (a time
consuming problem), and the migrate it to cvs.

        - rob -