Re: Extremely poor quality of GNUStep applications

2011-06-22 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, sorry for the long, long delay. We had to get in contact with the guys at savannah to solve some administration problems that couldn't be solved from our administrative console. Zhang Weiwu of 3fingers wrote: On 04/27/2011 03:02 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I'll speak with Greg

Re: Extremely poor quality of GNUStep applications

2011-06-22 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 06/22/2011 04:08 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: both gap-discuss and gap-dev-discuss are now back online and working! Ooh, I need to find the piece of paper where I briefly wrote 8 known problems! I hope still can find them Congratulations on the coming back of mailing list!

Re: OpenBSD hangs / crashes with Suduku

2011-06-22 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 11:04 CEST, Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it wrote: Hi, I am able to reproduce the problems Sebastian has on my own OpenBSD/x86 box. I get this problem only on OpenBSD. I use gcc and its standard runtime. The same combination appears to work

tests on OpenBSD

2011-06-22 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, given the failure on Sudoku on OpenBSD/x86, I decided to run the test-suite. gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719 libffi-3.0.9Foreign Function Interface The output doesn't look that nice: test: base/GSMime: unknown operand --- Running tests in base/Functions --- test: NSPathUtilities.m:

Re: tests on OpenBSD

2011-06-22 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 12:35 CEST, Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it wrote: Hi, given the failure on Sudoku on OpenBSD/x86, I decided to run the test-suite. This is what I've seen too. Commenting out the line where it goes to generates the exception in -[NSException

Re: OpenBSD hangs / crashes with Suduku

2011-06-22 Thread Fred Kiefer
As Sebastian already pointed out not the exception is the problem here, but the way we currently implement it. The exception itself is part of the algorithm of that application. It's a sort of structured long jump, when a solution is found somewhere deep down in the recursion it jumps back to

Re: OpenBSD hangs / crashes with Suduku

2011-06-22 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, indeed. Just to be sure, I used a platform where SUdoku and put a breakpoint. I confirm that the exception is always thrown. Terrible code, I have the urge to rewrite it properly... it looks like roughly like tail-recursion. In any case it is no excuse for exceptions not working on