[PPL-devel] First PPL 0.10.1 release candidate

[Dave Korn]

Dave Korn wrote:
> Roberto Bagnara wrote:
> 
>> We have uploaded the first PPL 0.10.1 release candidate to
> 
>> Please report any problem you may encounter to ppl-devel
> 
>     Hi Roberto and team,
> 
>   I am sorry to report some problems encountered.

  I am pleased to report some problems resolved :)

> Target: i686-pc-cygwin, cygwin-1.7.0-42, gcc-4.3.2, ppl configured with
> --enable-shared --disable-static, no -fexceptions, no --enable-cxx.
> 
> FAILs:  100%.

Target: i686-pc-cygwin, cygwin-1.7.0-42, gcc-4.3.2, ppl configured with
--enable-shared --disable-static, no -fexceptions, no --enable-cxx.

PASSes:  100%. :)

>   I don't know if this is purely a problem of the testsuite
> framework, or if this represents a real problem in the library itself, 

  It was caused by a packaging glitch in the Cygwin distro, which can be
resolved upstream.

> leftover executables after the testsuite run all fail with exit code 128.  I
> ran a few under gdb and they all said
> 
>   Program exited with code 0200.
> 
> so I guess this is a deliberate exit rather than a SEGV or other crash.

  Apparently this is also one way in which a missing dependent DLL can manifest.

    cheers,
      DaveK