From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Flaw in tmpfile() ?
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 09:39:53 +0100
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Christopher Croughton writes:
>Trying to get into the Web site is (as DJ says) slow, and trying to 
>find a bug in the system is even worse.  Having an easily grepped file 
>in the library release would be a lot faster.

Putting the file into the library would seem to defeat the point: if you
haven't yet updated the library, surely this file will also be out of
date? :-) Remember that djgpp is included on many ftp sites and CDROM
distributions, so changes to these files will be very slow to propagate
through the entire userbase. I think a web-based list would be much more
useful, which seems very close to the "list all open bugs" on DJ's
server! Maybe it just needs someone to write up and maintain a slightly
more concise summary of that list?

>The people who have problems are those who are new to DJGPP,
>and often to C/C++ programming in general, and they are the ones who
>will suspect their own code not the ANSI-defined functions.

I think actually the opposite is true! In my experience it is the more
experienced coders who will ask "what am I doing wrong?", while the
newcomers are the ones who cry "it's a bug!" the first time they
encounter padded structs, buffered stdout, text vs. binary files, etc...


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