As another side note; I used automake and autoconf to create the
configure and Makefile; if anyone can share information setting up
Makefile.am and configure.ac properly for cross-platform/parallel
building, do share.
Thanks,
Axton Grams
On 8/7/07, Axton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know this is not the right forum, but you are the people I know. I
> am working on an arfilter plug-in and have a question about C. The
> plug-in I am writing randomly returns true or false based on a
> probability (e.g., 1 in 10 chance T is returned).
>
> The output from the plug-in shows the following:
>
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <INFO> ARFilterApiCall called by user Demo
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINER> Random bytes: i{¤ïÓÅ
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINEST> character 0:
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINER> int val of char 0: 134
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINEST> bit offset: 0
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINEST> after bit offset: 134
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINEST> character 1: i
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINER> int val of char 1: 105
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINEST> bit offset: 8
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINEST> after bit offset: 26880
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINEST> character 2: {
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINER> int val of char 2: 123
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINEST> bit offset: 16
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINEST> after bit offset: 8060928
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINEST> character 3: ¤
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINER> int val of char 3: 164
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINEST> bit offset: 24
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINEST> after bit offset: 2751463424
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <FINE> Random 32-bit int: 2894948742
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <INFO> Received value: 2
> <ARSWIKI.ARF.PRNG> <INFO> Return Value: 1
>
> The Random bytes line should contain 4 bytes of data, but for some
> reason it returns between 4 and 8 bytes.
>
> The sources that retrive and log the value are available at:
> http://arswiki.org/projects/arfprng/browser/trunk/lib/arfprng.c#L241
>
> The program seems to work fine, but it worries me that I seem to be
> reading memory I shouldn't be. Any help is appreciated.
>
> fwiw, the plug-in functions properly on linux, though there are a few
> things I need to clean up before I consider it production worthy
> (e.g., handling text values, handling zero as an input value, breaking
> the code into functions, etc.).
>
> Main Page: http://arswiki.org/projects/arfprng
>
> As a partial side note, I installed the Doxygen plug-in for Trac; the
> doxygen docs are available within the project web page.
>
> As another side note; there seem to be some undocumented functions
> available that are exposed through ARPluginSetProperties:
>
> AR_PLUGIN_PROP_LOG_FUNCTION
> AR_PLUGIN_PROP_INSTALL_DIR
> AR_PLUGIN_PROP_CONFIG_FILE
> AR_PLUGIN_PROP_GETUSER_FUNCTION
> AR_PLUGIN_PROP_GETAUTHSTRING_FUNCTION
> AR_PLUGIN_PROP_GETUSERAUTHINFO_FUNCTION
> AR_PLUGIN_PROP_REGISTERSIGNALHANDLER_FUNCTION
> AR_PLUGIN_PROP_INITTLS_FUNCTION
>
> Wondering if anyone had experimented with these and could share their
> comments.
>
> Axton Grams
>
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