Tango heap is dangerous
Christopher Wright
dhasenan at gmail.com
Tue Oct 14 17:33:08 PDT 2008
Denis Koroskin wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:56:57 +0400, Christopher Wright
> <dhasenan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi! I wrote Tango's heap implementation.
>>
>> DO NOT USE IT.
>>
>> It contains a bug that will result in data loss under relatively
>> common and hard to track circumstances.
>
> *LOL*! Why not just fix the bug and announce it so that everyone who
> uses it would update thier Tango revision?
The way I wrote it did not contain any such bug.
> Besides, how long ago did you submit your code? I doubt that anyone is
> already using it in some serious project (there was no release since
> then, if I am not mistaken).
I'm just angry about my inability to change anything in Tango. I've
managed to get one bug fixed after providing a patch. But I've asked for
a one word change and had it denied after arguing about it for a week
and providing about half a dozen use cases. Denied with some irrelevant
explanation ("You're asking for struct interfaces, really" -- except I
provided five use cases that that wouldn't solve). I've submitted a
couple other things with code attached, and they got ignored.
I'm hoping that this gets taken care of. I'm not sure it will. But at
least if I make a bloody row about it, it has a chance.
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