[PVFS2-developers] current cvs weirdness

Robert Latham robl at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Jun 7 15:29:08 EDT 2005


On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:19:58PM +0200, Phil Carns wrote:
> Changing the strip_size variable to a PVFS_size instead of int and 
> adjusting the sscanf in the argument parser accordingly fixes the 
> problem.  The same bug afflicts the create-with-dist.c test program in 
> test/client/sysint as well, but with less disasterous results (but still 
> a very wrong strip size).

I fixed this in CVS.  

Is there a way to make sure users know they passed in a too-small
variable to the distribution code?  that void * means the compiler
won't catch anything, but is there something else we can do? 

==rob

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Rob Latham
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