Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

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.

Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2001-07-26: Thursday