ANNOUNCE: New Bounded Pointers Project Page

ANNOUNCE: New Bounded Pointers Project Page

[Greg McGary]

I put up a new project page for bounds checking with bounded pointers:

	http://gcc.gnu.org/proj-bp.html

This is a work in progress and I'll be adding more material over the
coming days and weeks.  I think there's already enough information
there to be useful.

You may direct feedback to me.

I'm generally clueless about all things www, but managed to put this
page together by cloning the framework from other project pages and
adapting the content.

If you understand HTML, please help me debug the links to gdb & ld
patches that appear in the "Getting Started" section.  The patch files
exist in CVS wwwdocs/htdocs/, the links look reasonable to me (not
saying much... 8^), but Apache doesn't find them.

Greg

Re: ANNOUNCE: New Bounded Pointers Project Page

[Mo McKinlay]

# If you understand HTML, please help me debug the links to gdb & ld
# patches that appear in the "Getting Started" section.  The patch files
# exist in CVS wwwdocs/htdocs/, the links look reasonable to me (not
# saying much... 8^), but Apache doesn't find them.

A link to a file on another server should look like:

<a href=" http://server/path/to/file ">text of link</a>

To a file in a different directory on the same server:

<a href="/path/to/file">text of link</a>

And to a file in the same directory:

<a href="file">text of link</a>

For example:

<a href=" http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html ">GNU Software</a>

<a href="/software/software.html">GNU Software</a>

<a href="software.html">GNU Software</a>

Hope this is of small help :)

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Mo McKinlay             Chief Software Architect          inter/open Labs
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Re: ANNOUNCE: New Bounded Pointers Project Page

[Greg McGary]

Mo McKinlay <mmckinlay@gnu.org> writes:

> And to a file in the same directory:
> 
> <a href="file">text of link</a>

This is the form of link I have.

Here's the link from proj-bp.html:

	<a href="proj-bp-patch-ld.txt">Get the ld patch from here.</a>

The file proj-bp-patch-ld.txt exists in the same directory as
proj-bp.html.  Does the `.txt' extension break it?

Greg

Re: ANNOUNCE: New Bounded Pointers Project Page

[Mo McKinlay]

# Here's the link from proj-bp.html:
# 
# 	<a href="proj-bp-patch-ld.txt">Get the ld patch from here.</a>
# 
# The file proj-bp-patch-ld.txt exists in the same directory as
# proj-bp.html.  Does the `.txt' extension break it?

No reason why it should - so long as the file is world-readable, there
shouldn't be any reason why it can't find it.

What happens if you go directly to the path of proj-bp-patch-ld.txt using
your browser? If it still doesn't find it, then it's not a problem with
proj-bp.html :)

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Mo McKinlay             Chief Software Architect          inter/open Labs
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Re: ANNOUNCE: New Bounded Pointers Project Page

[Greg McGary]

Mo McKinlay <mmckinlay@gnu.org> writes:

> What happens if you go directly to the path of proj-bp-patch-ld.txt using
> your browser? If it still doesn't find it, then it's not a problem with
> proj-bp.html :)

OK, then proj-bp.html is exempt.

All files exist in CVS:

$ cvs stat htdocs/proj-bp*
===================================================================
File: proj-bp-patch-gdb.txt     Status: Up-to-date

   Working revision:    1.1
   Repository revision: 1.1     /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/proj-bp-patch-gdb.txt,v
   Sticky Tag:          (none)
   Sticky Date:         (none)
   Sticky Options:      (none)

===================================================================
File: proj-bp-patch-ld.txt      Status: Up-to-date

   Working revision:    1.1
   Repository revision: 1.1     /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/proj-bp-patch-ld.txt,v
   Sticky Tag:          (none)
   Sticky Date:         (none)
   Sticky Options:      (none)

===================================================================
File: proj-bp.html      Status: Up-to-date

   Working revision:    1.7
   Repository revision: 1.7     /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/proj-bp.html,v
   Sticky Tag:          (none)
   Sticky Date:         (none)
   Sticky Options:      (none)

Opening http://gcc.gnu.org/proj-bp.html from the browser succeeds.

Opening http://gcc.gnu.org/proj-bp-patch-ld.txt from the browser fails:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	Not Found

	The requested URL /proj-bp-patch-ld.txt was not found on this server.

	Apache/1.3.9 Server at gcc.gnu.org Port 80
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

There shouldn't be any propagation delay between CVS and Apache, since
the main page proj-bp.html appeared immediately after I committed the
cvs add, and my changes have always appeared immediately after I
committed them.

Greg

Re: ANNOUNCE: New Bounded Pointers Project Page

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On 31 Jul 2000, Greg McGary wrote:
> The file proj-bp-patch-ld.txt exists in the same directory as
> proj-bp.html.  Does the `.txt' extension break it?

Yes, there seems to be a bug in the web page preprocessing machinery. 
I am investigating.

Gerald
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Re: ANNOUNCE: New Bounded Pointers Project Page

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Yes, there seems to be a bug in the web page pre-processing machinery. 
> I am investigating.

Fixed. In fact, it was a long-standing bug, that Jason M. kindly reminded
me of!

I updated the web machinery and re-ran your pages through it; now all
the *.txt appear there as well. I'll have a closer look at the pages
themselves later...

Gerald
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