At 05:47 PM 7/25/2005 -0300, Alain wrote:
Hi Michael, Eric, Arcady and Jeremy,
I have just read all this thread at once. It sounds just like a big quiproquo.
1) Eric pinpointed one problem to a register modification
2) He found out that new compile options could solve it, temporaryly only
meant it as a test. It is *not* clear at all if he did the compiling
himself (probably lots of off-list talk)
Eric called this one right. Good for him. Most people won't uncover more
than one nontrivial problem in a year of FreeDOS work and Eric has found
several of them, plus he not uncommonly has a reasonable solution. Nice
job. He can be a valuable resource.
Except he didn't find out saving registers would fix things. He dug into
it, got some debugging information and then flatly decided _without_
verification that register usage definitely _was_ the problem and saving
them _would_ fix the situation, then gleefully blatted out the
culprit. Without testing he could easily have been mistaken. Too typical
a behavior, most of the myriad e-mails sent me by him that are erroneous
could have been cleared up with minor post-processing of the "discovery".
Is discovering a possible fix so exciting it has to be sent out Right That
Very Second? Is verification, testing, and reading documentation only for
the proletariat? I wouldn't presume to guess. But consider: A single
e-mail or mail-list post isn't just the one minute read it looks to be when
it is sent. The content has to be thought about, processed, and all too
frequently tested on a real system. After that, writing a response can
take anywhere from five minutes to more than an hour if one takes care to
be accurate and detailed for what they communicate in return.
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