On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:47:50PM +0100, Julian Foad wrote: > > I seem to remember that some of > >them are tweaked in various small ways. > > Eww. That's a recipe for breakage later.
I might be wrong about it -- I really don't remember actually. > I have gone through your patches as logged in the Grep Savannah > issue tracker, and tried to add pointers to the original bug reports > in the Red Hat tracker, because there are usually explanations of > the bug and reproduction recipes there. It's difficult to use a > source code patch when the scope and details of the problem it > addresses are not specified. If you could go through and add > descriptions and pointers to reports to the rest of them, that would > be great. I saw that you had done that, and assumed that you had copied in my links from when I sent all the information I had to this mailing list (or its previous incarnation) last year. > Sure, but maybe you can help us with testing. For instance, did you use > any automated test scripts? Actually I didn't, but I did perform some ad-hoc tests for the error conditions: for example, the behaviour when given invalid UTF-8 shouldn't change before/after the egf-speedup patch, since it does not address any correctness issues only performance. Tim. */
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