From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA03352; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:29:32 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA03381 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:29:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from orcaware.com (bdsl.66.12.233.174.gte.net [66.12.233.174]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gAPITT121388; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:29:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from orcaware.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by orcaware.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gAPITS76009468; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:29:28 -0800 Message-ID: <3DE26C26.EFB8043A@orcaware.com> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:29:58 -0800 From: Blair Zajac X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,x-ns1rfacHe4WNh5,x-ns2U100btwUq5f MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xavier Leroy CC: Caml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Submitting patches to Ocaml References: <3DDEC932.6B3C74C@orcaware.com> <20021125111155.A14115@pauillac.inria.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Xavier Leroy wrote: > > > I decided to run valgrind against the bytecode interpreter and it > > found a memory leak, which fixed. > > Yes, valgrind is an excellent tool. As for the memory leaks, there > are things that are not freed on exit (heap, stack), but that's > intentional (the OS is goign to free everything itself). Bug reports > for other leaks are most welcome. Thanks. Will do. > > > Anyway, I have a patch for the memory leak and for a couple of > > other minor things I saw in the C code. > > What's the best way to get these into the CVS tree? Should I > > send the patches to caml-bugs? > > The best way is to submit bug reports to caml-bugs. Attach a patch if > you wish, but that's optional (we may want to fix the bugs differently). > A patch without a bug report is useless. > > > Regarding the bug tracker, I noticed that it doesn't do any > > tracking of the people that respond to or categorize bugs. > > It seems pretty feature short compared to Bugzilla. Would > > there be any way to get Bugzilla installed at Inria? > > Bugzilla has a reputation of being awfully hard to install. Other bug > tracking systems are better alternatives. Jitterbug (what we > currently use) is indeed simplistic, but fits our needs well. I've installed it several times on different sites and it wasn't particularly hard. And comparing it to writing a GC, it seems simple :) But it does take a while. Best, Blair -- Blair Zajac Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/ ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners