Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] Regression since wget 1.10: no_prefix function is *bad*

[Tim Rühsen]

Am Sonntag, 12. Mai 2013 schrieb Giuseppe Scrivano:
> Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > having an abort() without a message is simply a big waste of time for any 
> > developer who stumbles upon it.
> 
> I disagree here, what is so difficult that a debugger cannot catch?  On
> the other hand, I agree this can be improved.
> 
> 
> 
> > Since the init code of Wget has to be rewritten anyways, i provide the 
fastest 
> > solution right now: increasing the buffer size and printing a message 
before 
> > Wget aborts.
> >
> > And yes, the whole issue is hell stupid...
> 
> > -  static char buffer[1024];
> > +  static char buffer[2048];
> 
> 
> This won't really fix the problem of having a static buffer, the real
> fix would be to dynamically allocate the memory.

Yes, as I wrote, it is a quick hack.

A real solution would be a rewrite of the init stuff (I saw that already 
somewhere on the Wget 2.0 wish list or somewhere - don't remeber exactly).

I already wrote this kind of code and would contribute it to Wget.
But i am unshure how to apply it to Wget. Since it would be a pretty big 
change, should i git-clone Wget and you merge later or do you create a new 
branch or ...

Ah, than we again have to discuss that infamous c89/c99 thing.
AFAIR, the main argument against c99 came from Daniel Stenberg (Curl, haxx.se) 
who mentioned MS Visual C not being C99 ready (it will never be, said MS).
I just saw that Debian has MinGW cross compiler packets for Win32 and Win64 
with gcc 4.6, but I have no experience with those.
Does anybody know if that is a real alternative to MS VC ?

Regards, Tim