[9fans] problem with rminnich's 9vx

[mathieu.lonjaret@gmail.com (Mathieu Lonjaret)]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:09 PM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Mathieu Lonjaret
> <mathieu.lonjaret at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, since Ron's tree is based on Yiyus', and Ron's doesn't have that
>> patch, I think that means Yiyus' doesn't have it either. And yet,
>> Yiyus' works for me, so I doubt this bug was the culprit for me. More
>> like a 64 bits issue as Yiyus mentionned earlier, no?
>
> well, actually, it's more like yiyus forked mine long ago and then we
> trade patches ... so it's not clear what's going on here. Did you look
> to see if yiyus took that patch?

Yes I looked, it doesn't have it.
https://bitbucket.org/yiyus/vx32/src/398d27a1f253/src/9vx/a/fmt.c

> I run 9vx on 64-bit boxes all the time. One thing I do know is that
> ubuntu keeps adding things to the libraries and compiler, so: what
> version of ubuntu?

10.04.2

> I tend to trust Christoph's diagnosis on this one but ...

and you were right to, because I've just tried it and it also works.
so both yours with Christoph's patch and yiyus's without it do, 2
different ways to fix the problem. :)