On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:45:40AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Yes, I have found the problem. It is this line, which I am amazed hasn't
> > bitten us before:
> > next unless /^\d/;
> > The first field in the dumpbin output looks like a 3 digit hex number.
>
> Argh, so it was crossing a power-of-2 boundary that got us. Good catch.
>
> > For now I'm going try to fix it by changing it to:
> > next unless $pieces[0] =~/^[A-F0-9]{3}$/;
>
> Check.
Yeah, nice catch. Wouldn't surprise me if we actually had this problem
before, just that the dropped symbols were not actually used by our own
modules. I notice the export count jumped to 5226...
> > I also propose to have the gendefs.pl script save the dumpbin output so
> > this sort of problem will be easier to debug.
>
> Agreed, but I suggest waiting till 8.4 is branched unless you are really
> sure about this addition. We freeze for 8.3.0 in less than 24 hours.
+1
//Magnus
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