Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Poked mail, read the latest LXF, poked Aaron wrt. some banshee issues, filed bug. Upgraded my evo. and installed debuginfo packages for Srini. Good to see Chris on the BBC.
Dug at a gut-wrenching yast2-gtk bug; stumbled upon the mystical boost tribool implementing "3-state boolean logic". if (b) { } else if (!b) { } else { } etc. Sounds fun doesn't it; of course, the fun stops when you're used to being able to read code & see what it does: the innocuous:
if (ptr != NULL && ptr->getTribool())
yields a fairly inexplicable SEGV when ptr is NULL; why ? simple: this gem gets interpreted as:
if ( logic::tribool::operator&& ( ptr != NULL, ptr->getTribool() ) )
which (of course) looses you the sequence-point protection you were expecting. Of course, the academic question of: how to fix this in a robust way is still open.
Started chasing some substantial performance regression in the package selector too, found / nailed a corner case. Discovered y2tool tagversion and make package in yast2 modules; interesting. Pushed new package.
Backed up laptop. Hacked on iogrind, chased / filed evo. crasher, tested / committed JonP's patch. Out to preacher's meeting in the evening @ Tony & Janice's.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2007-07-23: Monday