Re: Patchy email

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 09:38:57AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> >     nice make doc -j3 CPU_COUNT=3
> >
> >     Previous good commit:   2fd5a378f5d883536b1aac57583d261ce60a4043
> >
> >     Current broken commit:  c1a1f9684b6cfab2e4b4d813db6058c7d22b9b0a
> 
> My guess would be on
> 
>     commit 9f24e79a945ec4ab000d3e09ff2d2ac8208e2246

> since c1a1f9684b6cfab2e4b4d813db6058c7d22b9b0a is just a rewording and
> quite trivial.

Apparently a later build succeeded.  Either something's weird in
Patchy, or it's yet another instance of some uninitialized
variable or memory.  Since there isn't much interest in cleaning
up compiler warnings[1] so that we can use automatic tools to
identify such problematic occurrences, I guess we'll just stumble
forward as usual.

[1] if your version of g++ doesn't find a ton of warnings -- on
any architecture -- try using clang 3.0.

Cheers,
- Graham