Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Up at 2.00pm, resolved to take life more easily.
- Wow; it seems my 2 year old un-committed sequence
point spec violation patch for gcc has been resurected and is
being persued by Joseph Myers ( at Cambridge in fact ).
Designed to flag warnings on things like n = n++; and other
bugs. In fact there are a load of fun things it finds ( these
can often be trapped in the wild lurking around loops or
comma operators ):
- a [n] = b [n++];
- a = (a = 1) + 2;
- a = b [a++] = c;
- a = b = a++;
- a [i++] = i;
It seems Joseph knows what he is doing, more so than I
he wrote a man page entry and adated my test into a regression
test; what a hero.
- Back to work, chewed mail.
- Helped Dad cook a birthday dinner for my mother,
very pleasant. Apart from forgetting to eat the starter ( Melon )
and the mints afterwards it was great.
- Church for a band practice, decided to play bass
instead of violin to make life more exciting.
- Darin fixed the radio button bug that we've
experienced, at least worked around the original problem in Gtk+.
- Discovered to my horror that the translation mechanism
would give me strings encoded in anything from utf8 to iso-latin-1,
libxml only accepts UTF8 strings, so I'm very stuffed indeed. Need
to add another layer of encoding and decoding, some people will get
UTF8 encoded UTF8, but life is hard. It seems this is a problem that
is rather too universal, roll-on Pango.
- So, Miguel had some nice ideas for hiding it all inside
bonobo which sound great, much encouraged. Miguel is happily hacking
away at monikers and property stuff.
- Too tired to finish it; 3.30am time for bed. Dell seem to
think my laptop will be here by the 17th; not a bad lead time.
- Update gnumeric to examine xml2pot, it seems someone
screwed the history, until it is fixed "just rm ChangeLog" and update
again.
- It seems everyone, and the bloke they once met, are
proposing themselves for the Gnome Foundatiton board, they all look
so promising which ones do I vote for ? Worryingly _loads_ of non
hackers seem to be keen on joining the board which would be a
nightmare.
My content in this blog and associated images / data under
images/ and data/ directories are (usually)
created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
