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Changes between Version 63 and Version 64 of mmcco


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Timestamp:
Aug 21, 2015, 8:32:06 PM (8 years ago)
Author:
mmcco
Comment:

mention build environment benefits to porting

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  • mmcco

    v63 v64  
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    192192Porting Pidgin 3 to OpenBSD was a valuable experience. OpenBSD builds with strong compiler hardening and loads executables with strong ASLR and memory sanitization, so memory corruption bugs that usually fly on other platforms are often exposed. I found at least four of these, three of which I've already fixed upstream.
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     194Porting to a different build environment also helps tease out bugs. I found an issue in our pkg-config logic and another in an Automake script.
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