pterjan's diary

  LSM 2005

I'll go to Dijon tonight for the Libre Software Meeting 2005 (aka RMLL). I'll be there for Cooker meeting, PLF booth, maybe Gnome booth and if I have some time I'll watch some conferences :) See you there !

  Japanese tool

I found Nihongo Benkyo which is a simple app to search through a japanese dictionnary. You can search using part of the japanese or french or english word (or anything else if you import the data). It may be usefull if someday I get enough motivation to learn japanese :)

  Hello from Dijon

My first pictures are available.

Mandriva Cooker Meeting was cancelled because almost nobody from Mandriva is here so I spend most of the time on the PLF booth.

We learnt this morning that the village would be closed this afternoon to have us listen to the mayor's speech... So, we spend the afternoon in the Tanneries which has networking, nice people, sofa and beers :)

  The worst configure I have ever seen

I was rebuilding ace-5.4.4-1mdk.src.rpm (software comes from there) on x86_64, and my machine bacame unresponsive. I could run top which displayed:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
19509 pterjan   18   0  294g 353m  248 R  1.7 35.3   0:02.83 conftest

I could kill the configure which was doing this very interesting thing:

checking if new throws std::bad_alloc exception on failure...

I then looked into the configure code and found this :

        int main(int, char *[]) {
          while (1) {
            try {
              char *a = new char[1024*1024];
              if (a == 0) {
                return 1; /* new() does NOT throw exceptions */
              }
            }
#ifdef ACE_USES_STD_NAMESPACE_FOR_STDCPP_LIB
            catch (std::bad_alloc)
#else
            catch (bad_alloc)
#endif  /* ACE_USES_STD_NAMESPACE_FOR_STDCPP_LIB */
            {
             return 0; /* new() does throw exceptions */
            }
         };
           return 1;  /* ERROR: We shouldn't get this far! */
        }

How can someone write such code in their configure ? Maybe I could put into mine « checking if reboot is working... », « checking if /var can be deleted... » or « checking if apache can serve warez... ».

  Sorry planets

Looks like something strange occured while I updated my tdiary to 2.1.2. Planet Mandriva and Planete GnomeFR got my 10 latest news as being from yesterday. Sorry for the flood.

The RSS looks correct so I can't do much to fix...