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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-qa] QA confusion: Upstream qa issues -> failing to install
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:59:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008251459.10970.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282751707.30896.16.camel@yamato.local>

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On Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:55:07 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> What this bug is about is rather the kind of errors that I've commented
> on in [1], [2] and [3] which is that they _may_ be related to macros or
> functions that are not declared/defined by the current set of library
> dependencies, and would then lead to unresolved undefined symbols, and
> thus, to runtime failure.

or:
 - the return value is larger than an "int", and thus possibly truncated
 - the func requires 3 args, but user passes some other number, and compiler 
cannot flag it
 - the user passes args in the incorrect order and the compiler cant check it
-mike

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-25 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-25 11:42 [gentoo-qa] QA confusion: Upstream qa issues -> failing to install Thilo Bangert
2010-08-25 14:20 ` Markos Chandras
2010-08-25 15:55   ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2010-08-25 18:59     ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2010-08-25 21:57       ` Thilo Bangert
2010-08-25 19:20     ` Markos Chandras
2010-08-25 21:51       ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2010-08-25 22:33         ` Markos Chandras
2010-08-25 18:27 ` Mark Loeser
2010-08-25 22:02   ` Thilo Bangert
2010-09-03 15:17     ` Mark Loeser

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