Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Up early, slept not particularly well, very
worried about kicking sean in the head, or indeed the
effects of my feet getting anywhere near him.
- Want to get home, to see if there is any
interesting E-mail from J - very soppy.
- Hacked on ORBit2 type stuff on the train.
- Back home - lovely mail from J, back into the
thick of the mailing frenzy - chewing like mad.
- Checked out Bill's at-spi code.
- Found a heinous glibc bug ... gack, luckily
had the source to hand - churned through it from gmodule
down: _IO_vasprintf etc. etc. :-) electric fence is a
marvel. Simon Tennant rung up, and we talked over his
impending marriage - lovely.
- Finaly isolated the glibc bug:
#include >stdio.h<
extern int __asprintf (char **string_ptr,
const char *format, ...);
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
const char *a = "/opt/gnome/lib/orbit/Everything_module.so";
const char *b = "cannot open shared object file";
const char *c = "No such file or directory";
char *result;
free (malloc (8));
__asprintf (&result, "Hello %s", "World");
fprintf (stderr, "%s\n", result);
__asprintf (&result, "%s: %s: %s", a, b, c);
fprintf (stderr, "%s\n", result);
return 0;
}
gcc -lefence -g foo.c ; ./a.out
- Segv with glibc-2.2.3-7 (Debian), glibc-2.2.2-10 (RH7.1)
but fine with glibc-2.1.3-15 (Rh 6.2) - that's progress for you.
- Struggled for ages with libtool - eventualy
discovered a stray '-static' directive poisoning my shlib
code. Wrote to J. Mailed my libtool frustration off to
gtk-devel, to get some traction.
- Watched a terrible film called "Atomic Train" -
the only redeeming feature - amid the smothering, humid
cheesiness of it all - was that the Atomic bomb actualy blows
up and wipes out a load of people.
- Bed.
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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)
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