Re: lynx-dev time for 2.8.5 proper

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Leonid Pauzner wrote:

> 1-Jan-2004 21:11 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 address@hidden wrote:
>
> >> 031231 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 address@hidden wrote:
> >> >> it's high time there was a release called '2.8.5'.
> >> > yes -
> >>
> >> good!
> >>
> >> > I originally had it in mind a year ago,
> >> > but couldn't clean up for a release & deal with LP's patches.
> >> > That's why I switched my process to incremental patches in June -
> >> > to get rid of distractions.  Unfortunately that core dump in textarea
> >> > has my attention since it's a new bug and is difficult to debug.
>
> > I'm feeling better about the core dump.  Using a patch suggested by LP,
> > I was able to track it down and fix it.  (It was an bug that predates
> > 2.8.4 that we just happened to notice).
>
> It is a good exercise to guess which of my patches do you mean
> since the last one was sent in June;)   If you mean "allocHTLine"
> it would be nice to test whether it leaks on documents with large Stbl
> - perhaps we need few more freeHTLine calls to align with the latest
> IZ changes.

perhaps it does leak (I didn't really check that aspect), but it did force
the HTLine's that were being corrupted to be malloc'd rather than assigned
from the pool.  That let me run valgrind and see the bug.

> > I have to review my to-do list, but only recall some easier bugs (in the
> > refresh url, etc).  So finishing this week seems plausible.
>
> Good news!

it's fairly close - I'm only looking at some problems with specific
platforms, and intend just working on those.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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