raising probes with heatbugs & swarm-1.0.3 (addedenum)

[glen e. p. ropella]

Rick Riolo writes:
 > Looking at the compile and linking, I can't see any differences
 > other than swarm going from 1.0.1 and 1.0.3 .
 > 
 > Glen, I assume you can bring up a heatbug with a click on your machine, 
 > yes?  How about on other architectures?

Yep!  I can do it on both my linux box and my solaris box.

However, I changed the ZoomRaster.* handleButton method from:

  -handleButton: (int) n X: (long) x Y: (long) y 

to:

  -handleButton: (int) n X: (int) x Y: (int) y 

And in the ZoomRaster.m file, the method as a whole has to change
from:

-handleButton: (int) n X: (long) x Y: (long) y {
  return [super handleButton: n X: (x / (long)zoomFactor) Y: (y / 
(long)zoomFactor)];
}

To:

-handleButton: (int) n X: (int) x Y: (int) y {
  return [super handleButton: n X: (x / (int)zoomFactor) Y: (y / 
(int)zoomFactor)];
}

I also checked the Alpha, and sure enough, it crashed when probing.  And
the changes above fixed it.  Now, why?  I imagine it has something to 
do with left over trash in memory addresses, but, I blame that for 
everything. <grin>

So, is this something I need to fix immediately?  Or is it something that
can wait until 1.0.4?  (I'll probably begin making 1.0.4 right after
I finish with the swarmdocs-1.0.3.)

Also, this shows a hole in my testing process.  What I've been doing
is a 3 phase process.

1) once all the changes are in and seem to be working, I compile all
the apps I can get my hands on for either the Solaris or the linux
platforms (depends on whether I'm at home when I get to this step or
at work),

2) if those all worked, I begin compiling the package and the
swarmapps on the other machines, otherwise I make fixes and revert to
step 1 again,

3) if step 2 went smoothly, I come back to the base platform (either
linux or solaris) and run the swarmapps through their individual
tests, like probing, drag&drop, etc.  And I have a few modified
swarmapps that exercise certain features that I compile and run.

Obviously, this bug slipped through because the probing works on
both linux and solaris, but fails on HPs and Alphas (I checked
the Ultra, btw and it doesn't show the problem).  So, the natural
thing to add would be to do all the tests on all the platforms.
But, that's a *real* problem because even a single step of heatbugs
on the alpha in australia takes a good 5 minutes.

Any ideas?

glen
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