Re: [pilot-db-list] a bug in recordview up/down arrows

[Yedidyah Bar-D. <di...@ta...>]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 02:17:55PM -0600, Nathan Kurz wrote:
> > > I fixed something similar in the CVS version (Danger! Don't go
> > > there!). 
> > 
> > Already done :-) but only on pose, it's not dangerous (except maybe
> > for my mental health?).
> 
> Yes, mostly I mean for your mental health.  When I came to this
> project a few months ago, I found that the previous maintainers had
> disappeared*, and that the CVS was left in an uncompileable state. 
> 
> Thinking that the CVS code probably represented the most current code,
> I set off getting it into working order.  Now several months later,
> I'm realizing that it represents an incomplete early branch with lots
> of untested code, and that the 1.1.0 release was maintained and
> developed outside of CVS!  Frankly, I find this disgusting.

Now I understand your comments in the alpha5 release notes.

> 
> Essentially, I've wasted my time and that of many others by having
> them test the CVS version, which now works reasonably well under Pose
> (which I have access to) but still fails miserably on most real modern
> machines (which I don't currently have access to).
> 
> AVOID THE CVS VERSION UNTIL 1.1.0 BECOMES THE NEW HEAD!
> 
> > > If possible, it would be great to see if you can reproduce
> > > this bug with a stock binary release.  There are a number of
> > 

It's the same in the binary 1.1.0, but with two different messages:
db-standard:
DB (1.1.0m) called SysFatalAlert with the message:
"MemoryMgr.c, Line:4365, NULL handle".

db-mid:
same as db-standard

db-light:
DB (1.1.0l) called SysFatalAlert with the message:
"MemoryMgr.c, Line:4372, Non-word-aligned handle".

I tried each twice, on the same DB. I will, as promised, try to make
a sample DB that exposes this. I think it happens always if you have
enough fields, though.

> > If you refer to db-1.2.0-alpha5.prc then it's mostly the same. It
> > crashes at the same point, but with a different message:
> 
> No, 1.2.0 alpha series is based on the CVS code, which I'm suggesting
> you avoid spending time on.  I was hoping you could try it a
> precompiled 1.1.0 binary and see if you can reproduce the problem.
> Otherwise, I fear it may have to do with the particular choice of
> compile options which you (and I, as the compiler of the alpha) chose.
> 
> --nate
> 
> * - Marc has just lately resurfaced, at least partially, and his
>     comments have helped me understand the role of the CVS code.
-- 
Didi