(gold star request) Re: cygheap base mismatch detected

(gold star request) Re: cygheap base mismatch detected

[Christopher Faylor]

[I've moved this to cygwin-talk because I didn't necessarily want to
attribute this message to any specific person.]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:38:11PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>And the answer to your question will always be that if you want to find
>a solution to a bug, you should reproduce it, then debug it, then
>understand it, and then fix it.

gold star, please.

I love this succinct summation.

cgf

Re: (gold star request) Re: cygheap base mismatch detected

[Igor Peshansky]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> [I've moved this to cygwin-talk because I didn't necessarily want to
> attribute this message to any specific person.]

Huh?  Aren't you attributing this to Dave Korn below anyway? :-D

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:38:11PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> >And the answer to your question will always be that if you want to find
> >a solution to a bug, you should reproduce it, then debug it, then
> >understand it, and then fix it.

RDUF: Reproduce, Debug, Understand, Fix.  Sounds like something out of an
Army manual...

> gold star, please.
> I love this succinct summation.

Done.
	Igor
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RE: (gold star request) Re: cygheap base mismatch detected

[Dave Korn]

On 16 February 2006 21:17, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
>> [I've moved this to cygwin-talk because I didn't necessarily want to
>> attribute this message to any specific person.]
> 
> Huh?  Aren't you attributing this to Dave Korn below anyway? :-D

  It's no use, I'll deny it all, they'll never take me alive I tell you!!!!
 
>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:38:11PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> And the answer to your question will always be that if you want to find
>>> a solution to a bug, you should reproduce it, then debug it, then
>>> understand it, and then fix it.
> 
> RDUF: Reproduce, Debug, Understand, Fix.  Sounds like something out of an
> Army manual...

Or as it says in the Cygwin SOPs manual:

RDUDAHOI: Reproduce, Debug, Understand, Drop A Hippo On It.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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Re: (gold star request) Re: cygheap base mismatch detected

[Brian Dessent]

Dave Korn wrote:

> Or as it says in the Cygwin SOPs manual:
> 
> RDUDAHOI: Reproduce, Debug, Understand, Drop A Hippo On It.

I think that should be RDUDAHOIARLH (...and run like hell.)  How do you
think he's going to feel when he gets up after being dropped?

Brian