[darcs-devel] darcs patch: FastPackedString.hs: rw linesPS using By... (and 6 more)

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 05:31:48PM -0400, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> > P.S. Have you by any chance done anything that might fix the known bug
> > in the bytestring code? I imagine not, or you'd hopefully have
> > mentioned something to that effect, but it's definitely something worth
> > keeping in mind.  Of course, it may only manifest itself with certain
> > versions of bytestring...  :(
> 
> Well, I don't think it's something that appears with different versions
> of bytestring. So far as I knew, I got bad binaries with
> bytestring-0.9.0.1, and then got good binaries with bytestring-0.9.0.1 (I
> try to keep 0.9.0.4 off my system because it leads to an incredible
> amount of trouble for anything that links in GHC or links in something
> that links in...GHC).
> 
> Now, what did I do to fix the bug? As I said on the bts, I think, my
> theory is that what I did to fix it was scrapping wfindPS; if it wasn't
> that, then concatLenPS. I haven't had the heart to go back and restore
> the original definition and find out though.

If you can mention either in patch descriptions or accompanying emails that
a patch fixes a bug, that would be great.  Otherwise I probably won't
know (as was the case with this patch), and then I might ask, or I might
not.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
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