I've tried validator from v22622, still doesn't work. Here's a bunch of lines 
from it's log file (-d 4). Right now it grants 0 credits for all WUs. 

http://pastebin.com/hMQ5ddbL

TJM
http://www.enigmaathome.net

On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:07:23 -0700
 David Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>I checked in a possible fix.
>
>However: why use --credit_from_wu?
>I strongly encourage using the default credit system.
>
>-- David
>
>On 03-Nov-2010 2:00 PM, Slawomir Rzeznicki wrote:
>> Just tried, it works fine.
>> As far as I remember values returned by the 
>>parse_double() were close to 2^31,
>> changing randomly.
>> Maybe that's because there's something else broken, I 
>>left the validator running
>> overnight and probably it entered infinite loop, because 
>>on morning the drive
>> which it logs to was completely filled and the log had 
>>tens of gigabytes.
>> I started looking at the parse_double after I found out 
>>that the function
>> get_credit_from_wu reads xml_doc and parses it, but 
>>there's no sign of that in
>> the validator log (line 359 in validator.cpp should log 
>>it), and validator still
>> uses default credit system.
>> As far as I know at least one more project admin had 
>>exactly the same problem
>> and he even warned me before I upgraded the code, saying 
>>that it's likely to run
>> into problems.
>> On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:08:46 -0700
>> David Anderson <[email protected] 
>><mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>  >I'm not seeing this problem.
>>  >Can you please try running this program:
>>  >
>>  >#include <stdio.h>
>>  >#include <stdlib.h>
>>  >
>>  >int main() {
>>  > double x = atof("5.14343</credit");
>>  > printf("%f", x);
>>  >}
>>  >
>>  >Maybe it's an issue with the gcc version.
>>  >
>>  >-- David
>>  >
>>  >On 03-Nov-2010 2:53 AM, Slawomir Rzeznicki wrote:
>>  >> Hello,
>>  >>
>>  >> Yesterday I'noticed that --get_credit_from WU 
>>doesn't
>>  >>work with the latest
>>  >> validator code, probably it's broken since the 
>>removal
>>  >>of old credit system
>>  >> (can't verify that because TRAC requires permissions 
>>to
>>  >>view changes, that's
>>  >> weird because 2 days ago it didn't).
>>  >>
>>  >> I've done a lot of debugging and traced the problem 
>>to
>>  >>inline parse_double()
>>  >> in lib/parse.h. As far as I can see, this function 
>>can't
>>  >> parse<credit>x.xxxx</credit> if there is no space, 
>>tab,
>>  >>return or other
>>  >> whitespace after the number, y = atof(p+strlen(tag)
>>  >>returns strange values
>>  >> (extremely high numbers) for inputs like
>>  >>"5.14343</credit>" when the p+len
>>  >> points correctly at the beginning of the float.
>>  >>
>>  >> I think that the function could be easily replaced 
>>with
>>  >> XML_PARSE::parse_double(), but since I'm not C/C++
>>  >>programmer I failed to do
>>  >> it.
>>  >>
>>  >> /TJM http://www.enigmaathome.net
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