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@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@ +Sorry, this list does not claim completeness. If I fixed a bug +immediately upon receiving the first complaint I usually did not +nother to make an ehtry in this file, unless it was a serious bug +(core dump or infinite loop). + +==> Status indicators: (-) not fixed; (?) fix proposed but not + confirmed; (*) fixed. + +====================================================================== +BUGS found in 1.0.3 +------------------- + +(*) vars() error message is wrong (copied from dir() obviously). + +(*) socket.gethostname() is undocumented. + +(*) rfc822.py: getfirst* dies when multiple headers occur + +(-) urllib caching is wrong (should use date from Expires header) + +(*) On a related matter: regexpr.c still has two malloc()s the results + of which are not tested for being NULL (lines 1253 and 1530). There + are also some in rgbimagemodule.c. Am I overlooking something or is + this a crasher? + +(*) strop.rindex('abc', '') returns 0 instead of 3 + +(*) sunaudiodevmodule.o is too long! + +(-) need newer DOS binary (16 bit version doesn't do default args) + +(-) toplevel README needs new text on PC and Mac builds + +(*) long(0x80000000) has wrong value! + +====================================================================== +Bugs found in 1.0.2 and not yet fixed +------------------------------------- + +(-) compiler warnings about argument type of uname() on ULTRIX +machines + +(-) syntax error for interactive input prints garbage instead of last +source line on some systems (e.g. AIX) + +(?) (maybe) a bad .pyc file (with old magic number) causes the .py +file to be ignored + +(-) Sunos4.0.2 / 386 configure bugs: + - timelocal instead of mktime + - unistd.h doesn't declare some functions + +Bugs found in 1.0.2 and fixed in 1.0.3 +-------------------------------------- + +(*) nasty bug in string formatting (see test_types.py, search for %) + +(*) if a triple-quoted string ends in a quote followed by a newline +(followed immediately by the terminating 3 quotes) then a syntax error +or system error ensues + +(*) bug in socket.listen: clipping backlog to >= 1 doesn't work + +(*) two bogus XDEL's in Modules/regexmodule.reg_dealloc() + +(*) Parser/myreadline.my_fgets: #endif EINTR misplaced + +(*) new IP address for ftp.cwi.nl !!! + +(*) typing vars() to interactive prompt runs into infinite loop +because of '_' + +(*) tokenizer/tok_nextc() runs into infinite loop when file does not +end in linefeed + +(*) Sunos4.0.2 / 386 configure bugs: +(*) - use size_t at some places without including sys/types.h +(*) - missing clock_t +(*) - uses SEEK_SET in some places that don't include unistd.h + +====================================================================== +Bugs found in 1.0.1 and not yet fixed +------------------------------------- + +(-) modsupport.c(vmkvalue): on systems where va_list is an array, the +calls to do_mkvalue and do_mktuple don't want an "&" before va. + +(?) threads are slow on Solaris 2 + +(?) threads cause myreadline.c's readline() to think it sees an EOF. + +(-) min() on PC version generates wrong result (i.e. same as max()) + [this happens on SoftPC -- don't know about other systems] + +(-) flp.py cache bug: if the cache only contains one form, asking for +all forms returns only the cashed form + +Bugs found in 1.0.1 and fixed in 1.0.2 +-------------------------------------- + +(*) core dump when parser.parsefile() called + +(*) man page contains a mess before -d option + +(*) threads don't work on IRIX 4 + +(*) wrong cast of svideo_getattr in svmodule.c + +(*) bad return value in runpython.c's run_tty_1() + +(*) creating dict of 100,000 objects gets MemoryError or dumps core + +(*) freeze script doesn't work + +====================================================================== +BUGS found in 1.0.0 and not yet fixed +------------------------------------- + +(?) On NeXT, need to define _POSIX_SOURCE. + +(?) there appears to be something wrong with gcc and -ldl on some +SunOS 4.1.3 systems + +(-) jredfords reports core dump with float literals + +BUGS found in 1.0.0 and fixed in 1.0.1 +-------------------------------------- + +(*) On SGI IRIX 4 using cc, compilation errors in md5module.c. + +(*) In cdmodule.c, getattr initialized with (destructor)! + +(*) Lib/tzparse.py runs test() on import + +(*) Lib/filewin.py belongs in Lib/stdwin + +(*) lib and man install targets don't use $(srcdir) + +(*) Modules/rgbimgmodule.c: exception name contains comma instead of dot + +(*) The FAQ still references misc/EXTENDING and misc/DYNLOAD etc + +(*) The FAQ still describes how to work around a problem in 0.9.9 exec() + +(*) Lib/aifc.py, returns float rate, should be int + +(*) Lib/sunau.py, incorrectly cumputes byte count from frame rate + +(*) README should mention possibility of passing OPT=-g to make + +(*) dynamic loading on sunos 4.1.3 must call dlopen(..., 1) + +(*) use of <varargs.h> vs. <stdarg.h> should depend on + HAVE_STDARG_PROTOTYPES, not on HAVE_STDARG_H + +(*) Doc/README refers to Misc/FTP which in fact does not exist any more + +(*) filter(None, 'abcdefg') dumps core + +(*) once you interrupt time.sleep(), there is no interrupt handler! + +====================================================================== +end of file |