Your message dated Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:44:25 +0100
with message-id <49842b89.7050...@ens-lyon.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#488932: xserver-xorg-video-vesa: xf86GTFMode
implicitly converted to pointer
has caused the Debian Bug report #488932,
regarding xserver-xorg-video-vesa: xf86GTFMode implicitly converted to pointer
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Package: xserver-xorg-video-vesa
Version: 1:2.0.0-1
Severity: serious
Usertags: implicit-pointer-conversion
Our automated buildd log filter[1] detected a problem that is likely to
cause your package to segfault on architectures where the size of a
pointer is greater than the size of an integer, such as ia64 and amd64.
Function `xf86GTFMode' implicitly converted to pointer at ../../src/vesa.c:345
This is often due to a missing function prototype definition.
For more information, see [2].
It looks like this function is available in xserver-xorg-dev from
experimental, but not sid. Maybe this needs to be a versioned build-dep?
Though it is guaranteed that this codepath will cause a segfault on certain
architectures, it is not guaranteed that this codepath would ever be executed
(e.g., if the returned pointer is never dereferenced). However, this bug
does prevent the ia64 buildd from successfully building this package, resulting
in a practical FTBFS issue and warranting the serious severity.
[1] http://people.debian.org/~dannf/check-implicit-pointer-functions
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/ImplicitPointerConversions
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dann frazier
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Version: 1:2.1.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-vesa in experimental build-depends on
xserver-xorg-dev from experimental (>=1.5.99.901), so the bug is gone
there. The broken 2.0.0 package never entered testing, so only sid
remains broken.
Brice
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