Re: [gnome-love] Hi, which way ?

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 12:33, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:45:52AM +0200 or thereabouts, Aschwin van der Woude wrote:
> > Hi Artiom,
> > If you are interested in doing some testing, you are more than welcome
> > to do so. Testing with tools like Valgrind will probably find some more
> > problems in the various parts of Gnome.
>
> I have had several emails from Julian Seward which I constantly
> fail to forward onto more knowledge people (sorry, Julian!) in
> which he has said that he would love to hear about places where
> Valgrind can be made better for GNOME. Any places where it
> doesn't work nicely are not deliberate but just a consequence
> of his being less familiar with GNOME. 
>
> Summarising what I remember of what he said, he was talking
> about how he hoped it would be a good tool not only for "something
> is broken, reach for debugging tool" (ie for valgrind) but also
> for running routinely to find things that were broken anywhere
> and working out what common errors were being made that could
> be fixed all over the place.
>
> I think :) 

Compiling software with -Wall can also be an easy way to fix bugs.
Missing prototypes, wrong type of arguments, missing return values, etc.

This kind of bug is usually very easy to fix if you know C and can read
API documentation (or use grep ;) and they make a nice way to get
started with a code base.

Cheers

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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