[PD] fixes in 0.41?

[matteo sisti sette]

I just realized that [netsend] and [netreceive] are unreliable, and
this may be the source of most of my crashes now.

When bursts of large numbers of messages are sent, there are random
message losses. I may send 1000 messages in a burst and lose messages
613 through 918, with nobody issuing any error message or warning.
Btw I am using TCP netsend/receive, not UDP.
When a bunch of messages is lost, usually a corrupt message is
received (i.e. netreceive outputs a garbage message that has never
been sent: probably resulting from a "piece" of message).

Among other things, I am using received messages to dynamically create
objects in a subpatch, so god knows what happens when a garbage
message is appended to a "obj x y" message sent to a canvas: that may
be one source of crashes.
Another one may be some symbol being sent to a numeric [select] or
viceversa, or some message of an unexpected or illegal type entering
an inlet it shouldn't enter. I am carefully checking and routing MY
messages, but always assuming that only the kind of messages that I
know are being sent can be received. TCP communication is all about
guaranteing such an assumption is true.



2008/2/12, Miller Puckette <mpuckett at imusic1.ucsd.edu>:

> It's a dangerous thing to offer, but if you can make a patch crash
> using 'vanilla' pd on any of 32-bit linux, windows, mac, or 64-bit
> linux, send me a tarball of the patch and its dependencies and I'll
> try to see what happened.  Fixing crash bugs is always my highest priority.
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:46:11PM +0100, Steffen Juul wrote:
> >
> > On 12/02/2008, at 13.58, matteo sisti sette wrote:
> >
> > > Are there any changelogs (is this the correct word) listing added
> > > features and especially bugfixes  of each PD release?
> >
> > There are release notes in doc/1.manual/x5.htm. The bug/patch tracker
> > holds some info, but are not complete either - not everything is
> > listed there basically since Miller need not add to it but only pull
> > from it, and not everything is guaranteed to be indexed/categorized
> > right which means it's lost wrt. searching (like a misplaced book in
> > the library).
> >
> > To get a complete list I'm afraid we are left we diff'ing the source.
> >
> >
> >
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