[pdf-devel] http filesystem create/destroy functions needed

2010-02-09 Thread Scott Fohey
Managing libcurl for the http filesystem and RIA will require pthreads, and the initialization and cleanup of some http- filesystem-wide resources (worker thread, libcurl resources). There are currently no filesystem init or cleanup routines defined (that I could find anyhow). Is there any reason

[pdf-devel] Hi

2010-02-09 Thread shaunak saha
Hi All, I m new to gnu pdf.I just came accross this blog. http://planet.gnu.org/gnupdf/?p=9 for the requirement of software developer for this project.I m interested to contribute. But that blog seems to be old.Is there still a requirement for developers in this project? Regards, Shaunak

Re: [pdf-devel] Object Layer comments

2010-02-09 Thread jemarch
I don't quite understand the need of the Garbage Collector in the object layer, when we already have the possibility of reference counting in each PDF object. Why not just start refcount=1 when object is created and fully dispose the object when its refcount arrives zero? When addi

Re: [pdf-devel] gdb breakpoints in scripts?

2010-02-09 Thread Aleksander Morgado
> > Thus, this is not a good method to follow if you want to debug test #300, as > > you may need to do it 300 times. > How are you guys debugging routines? Do you have a small test harness > that links against the lib after a 'make install'? I ask because I > found the test program using libgnupd

[pdf-devel] Object Layer comments

2010-02-09 Thread Aleksander Morgado
Hi Jose and all, I don't quite understand the need of the Garbage Collector in the object layer, when we already have the possibility of reference counting in each PDF object. Why not just start refcount=1 when object is created and fully dispose the object when its refcount arrives zero? When add

Re: [pdf-devel] gdb breakpoints in scripts?

2010-02-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Aleksander (and Jose), > Jose and me tried on weekend to run under GDB all torture > tests, playing with "follow-fork-mode" and "detach-on-fork" > options; but no success. > [SNIP] Thanks for the help. It's nice to see it was not something dumb on my part. > Thus, this is not a good method to

Re: [pdf-devel] PDF_FORCE_BIGNUM

2010-02-09 Thread jemarch
Would be worth analyzing deeper the root cause of the problem with assign_quick(). Jeff, can you reproduce that "unstability" after a call to assign_quick? If so, please tell us the details so we can debug it. Thanks. -- Jose E. Marchesi http://www.jemarch.net GNU Pr

Re: [pdf-devel] gdb breakpoints in scripts?

2010-02-09 Thread Aleksander Morgado
> > >> I was able load and run the script under gdb as stated in [1]. I set a > >> BP on the function of interest. gdb responded as expected with a file > >> and line number (which were correct). > >> > >> However, when I run the script, the BP is never hit. I do see the > >> results of the failed