On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:21:09AM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Johannes Zellner wrote:
>
> > Hello again,
> >
> > xmi sometimes SEGFAULTS in
> >
> > libxmi/display/X/mode.inc:56
> >
> > folks! This is /very/ bad coding style IMHO!
> > XXMI_PRIV() is a threefold preprocessor macro, two times
> > casting to another struct and yet using another global
> > variable _xmiID.
> >
> > If you code like this, you will get bugs for /ever/,
> > I'll promise that!
> >
> > How would you expect me to debug crap like this ?
>
> Not at all. We do a complete rewrite in this case. Unfortunetly,
> there is noone, who has time for that... :(
Is it specific to the X display?
And how many times should it be rewritten? Is it like the Linux IP
stack, firewalling, VM or parport drivers?
Nicholas
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