Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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- 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.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
