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From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Gnulib bugs <bug-gnulib@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: any pending fixes? preparing for diffutils release
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2021 17:53:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+8g5KFfQPbT3QJTFPe-FMVYTbs=3eqwMyzKa3HpwJJSw_Z4fQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1d70ad6-0a9e-475d-8b83-41006c691b2f@cs.ucla.edu>

On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 3:15 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> I've recently been improving some GCC-based static analysis in Gnulib,

Welcome changes. Thanks!

> and syncing from Gnulib to diffutils meant that you have a bit of a
> work-in-progress there. I plan to make further such changes soon.

No problem, of course.

> The Gnulib work already installed is conservative and I see no harm in
> releasing what we've got in diffutils now. I'm sending this email mainly
> to give you a heads-up that more Gnulib changes are coming.
>
> FWIW attached are the diffutils patches I have so far. They assume the
> abovementioned Gnulib work-in-progress and this should not be installed
> in diffutils yet. Most likely more minor diffutils patches will be
> needed once I've finished the Gnulib changes I have in mind.
>
> Until today I've been using the Gnulib work-in-progress on grep rather
> than on diffutils. I've found one memory leak there and hope to find
> more bugs - after all, that's the point of all this. I didn't find any
> diffutils bugs in my brief run-through today.

Good. Thanks again.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-02  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-01 19:44 any pending fixes? preparing for diffutils release Jim Meyering
2021-08-01 22:14 ` Paul Eggert
2021-08-02  0:53   ` Jim Meyering [this message]
2021-08-02  5:36 ` Paul Eggert
2021-08-02  5:48   ` Jim Meyering

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