Re: ✘example

[Bernd Zeimetz]

On 3/8/21 1:15 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> I think our `misunderstanding' in FoxtrotGPS came from the comments in
> gps.h,
> which we were looking at because it felt like the only practical
> documentation that we had since there wasn't any description
> of the data library structures in the libgps man page;
> these lines in particular:
> 
>         /* GPS status -- always valid */
>         int    status;              /* Do we have a fix? */
>     #define STATUS_NO_FIX   0       /* no */
> 
> You say:
> 
>     "no status field" is perfectly normal in many configurations.
>     [...]
> 
>     This statement was never, ever, true:
> 
>     "they assume that gpsdata.fix.status == 0 means no fix."


You are not alone, I remember that I've seen similar code in other
projects... I should probably search trough debian and open bugs.


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