Ferret talk - Apr 2007 - 0.11.4 tidings

I''ve tried 0.11.4, and it has not yet crashed, even after I removed 
(most of) the workarounds. However, the same is also true of 0.11.3... I 
haven''t seen any of these crashes for several days, which is a very
good
thing. I can''t remember all the workarounds I did to sidestep the 
crashing; some of them I don''t want to reverse because they actually 
were also substantial speedups. It''s certainly possible that the 
problems I saw were my own bugs, or the result of passing the wrong 
parameters to ferret methods, which I''ve had problems with before...

I''ll keep trying and do a big test overnight, but so far, the news 
is..... ambivalent.

As far as the 64-bit warnings go, most are now gone, with one exception:

r_search.c: In function ''frt_td_to_s'':
r_search.c:202: warning: format ''%d'' expects type
''int'', but argument 3
has type ''long int''


Dave, I''d like to thank you once again for your efforts in creating and
maintaining Ferret. You make great efforts even when given scant and 
sketchy information about problems: that goes above and beyond the call 
of duty. Your dedication is amazing!

On 4/7/07, Caleb Clausen <caleb at inforadical.net>
wrote:
> I''ve tried 0.11.4, and it has not yet crashed, even after I
removed
> (most of) the workarounds. However, the same is also true of 0.11.3... I
> haven''t seen any of these crashes for several days, which is a
very good
> thing. I can''t remember all the workarounds I did to sidestep the
> crashing; some of them I don''t want to reverse because they
actually
> were also substantial speedups. It''s certainly possible that the
> problems I saw were my own bugs, or the result of passing the wrong
> parameters to ferret methods, which I''ve had problems with
before...
>
> I''ll keep trying and do a big test overnight, but so far, the news
> is..... ambivalent.
Excellent!
> As far as the 64-bit warnings go, most are now gone, with one exception:
>
> r_search.c: In function ''frt_td_to_s'':
> r_search.c:202: warning: format ''%d'' expects type
''int'', but argument 3
> has type ''long int''
This is easily enough fixed. Thanks for letting me know. It shouldn''t
cause any problems in the mean time.
> Dave, I''d like to thank you once again for your efforts in
creating and
> maintaining Ferret. You make great efforts even when given scant and
> sketchy information about problems: that goes above and beyond the call
> of duty. Your dedication is amazing!
You''re welcome. I''m just happy people appreciate my work.

Cheers,
Dave

-- 
Dave Balmain
http://www.davebalmain.com/