[PD] [PD-announce] pd 0.45-0 released

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

On 08/23/13 21:00, Miller Puckette wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Pd version 0.45-0 is available on http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.htm

cool.
i started updating the Debian packages...

> As always I'm sure there will be problems here and there - you're welcome
> to report them on the Pd mailing list (pd-list at iem.at) which is always the
> fastest way to get me to see them.

two smallish notes.

#1 CFLAGS
when manually including the Debian-patch "usercflags" (that makes sure
that user-specified CFLAGS are honoured by prepending the
configure-detected flags rather than appending), a small oversight has
occured:
- on *linux*, the configure-CFLAGS are still appended. instead the
change was made for *hurd* (aka "GNU"). i think this was simply a
confusion of "GNU" and "linux".
- otoh. the *hurd* CFLAGS still include "-O6"

the attached "usercflags.patch" hopefully gets this right. it /also/
fixes the CFLAGS append/prepend order for cygwin & mingw (though i admit
that i have not tested this)

#2 BUILD FAILURES with "-Werror=format-security"
when trying to build with the above error-flag (which pays some extra
attention to argument passing), the build fails due to two problems.
a) a call of "error(buf)" withing bug() is rejected, as the
'error'-function really reads "error(const char *fmt, ...)" and 'buf' is
not a format, resp. there are no varargs. the fix is simply to call
  error("consistency check failed: %s", buf)
and not construct the "consitency-failed" string beforehand. cool, this
makes the code a little more readable!
b) more serious, the new [text] object uses 'pd_error("ouch %s", str)',
when pd_error() really needs a pointer to a pd-object...
this is a potential crasher bug, as it accesses string memory as objects.

the attached patch "fix_format-security.patch" fixes this as well.


gfmasdr
IOhannes
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