Bug#324001: overlapping memcpy()

2006-05-21 Thread Albert Cahalan
On 5/21/06, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 05:09:32PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > End result: it acts like bzero() when src==dst hmm - someone should fix that broken implementation of memcpy. It's damn fast. I like fast libraries, do

Bug#324001: overlapping memcpy()

2006-05-21 Thread Albert Cahalan
On 5/21/06, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 09:20:17AM +0200, Albert Cahalan wrote: > That is indeed a serious error. no - it's a stupid but benign error: source and destination addresses are the same Consider this entirely reasonable

Bug#368285: incompatible color

2006-05-21 Thread Albert Cahalan
Package: xterm Version: 210-3 Severity: normal It's coming up as black-on-white now. I realize that this is all sophisticated-looking, and I realize that that are arcane ways to configure this, but... We have gnome-terminal for people who don't care about compatibility with the real thing and p

Bug#324001: overlapping memcpy()

2006-05-21 Thread Albert Cahalan
That is indeed a serious error. Besides going either direction, memcpy doesn't need to work via bytes. It could use 16-byte vector registers. It could use something like PowerPC's dcbz instruction, which causes a cache line (of the destination) to be allocated in an all-zero state rather than fet

Bug#320627: crash w/ xpdf

2005-07-30 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 16:31 -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > reassign 320627 xserver-xorg > thanks > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 02:10:55PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > At least two people have managed to crash X by > > trying to read the Florida law using xpdf. > >

Bug#320627: crash w/ xpdf

2005-07-30 Thread Albert Cahalan
Subject: crash w/ Florida law Package: xserver-common Version: multiple At least two people have managed to crash X by trying to read the Florida law using xpdf. -- instructions for trying it -- Here is the Florida Administrative Code: http://fac.dos.state.fl.us/faconline/chapter

trunk/debian/local/FAQ.xhtml

2004-08-20 Thread Albert Cahalan
I just spotted an error in the X FAQ. I've quoted it below, as I saw it in a change log. Sorry, but procps does not currently report IO memory as part of the memory being used by the X server. The X server is guilty as charged. Mine grows to about 300 MB on a system with only 16 MB of RAM. Of cour