[Plplot-devel] Third proof of concept for the "exception handling" topic

2017-07-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-22 22:47+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: Attached is a new patch series in a tarball. I don't see a huge need to keep two separate branches any more. In fact I just tried to disentangle my latest few commits into two branches using git rebase -i and endured a whole world of pain. Hi Phil

[Plplot-devel] Third proof of concept for the "exception handling" topic -- Further discussion

2017-07-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Phil: Here is further discussion of what you have said as opposed to the error report I sent you in my previous post concerning your 3rd iteration. Do keep in mind the possibility for the future that the memory allocation part of your commits are worthwhile in their own right and could be fin

Re: [Plplot-devel] Third proof of concept for the "exception handling" topic -- Further discussion

2017-07-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
P.S. I just reviewed the wikipedia article on call graphs, and it appears I was misusing that term and should have used call chain instead where a call graph for a given library consists of all the potential call chains in the library with each one starting at one of the public API's. So my under

Re: [Plplot-devel] Third proof of concept for the "exception handling" topic -- Further discussion

2017-07-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-23 06:00-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: P.P.S. As I am just discovering, one of the huge problems in this field is terminology. For example, the wikipedia article refers immediately to 6 synomyms (ouch!) for call stack with one of those being just

Re: [Plplot-devel] Third proof of concept for the "exception handling" topic -- Further discussion

2017-07-23 Thread Phil Rosenberg
On 23 July 2017 at 12:27, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Hi Phil: > > Here is further discussion of what you have said as opposed to the > error report I sent you in my previous post concerning your 3rd > iteration. > > Do keep in mind the possibility for the future that the memory > allocation part of yo

Re: [Plplot-devel] Third proof of concept for the "exception handling" topic -- Further discussion

2017-07-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Phil: On 2017-07-23 22:00+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: On 23 July 2017 at 12:27, Alan W. Irwin wrote: I suggested in my big e-mail to you early this week (Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:59:00 -0700 (PDT)) concerning your second iteration a method of doing this using a list of plstream heap pointers. P

[Plplot-devel] PLplot Debian package -- spelling issues fixed

2017-07-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-15 11:49+0200 Ole Streicher wrote: And, finally, there are a few spelling errors found by lintian: directorys -> directories Continous -> Continuous argment -> argument argments -> arguments The "directories" spelling issues had already been independently corrected in this release c