reached a milestone at work...
So, I just saw that my last post was 7 weeks ago. Back then I mentioned looking for a crash-during-shutdown of one of our programs. Well, today I finally saw my custom build of that program execute without crashing. Which is a huge relief, I was starting to think that that would never happen. However, it's also something I've been working on for soooooo long and it's been going so very slowly that I'd reached the despair phase. Had stopped even wanting to deal with any problems other than the ones from work, and those only cause they pay the bill and I hafta...
So anyway, today I'm more optimistic, can maybe finally start working on the AIX port soon. Can't be too complacent yet about the non-crashing-ness of today's custom build, though, since there's at least one problem I sort-of skipped over by choosing the well-if-that-doesnt-work-lets-try-the-next-best-alternative... Which does seem to work (or at least, is not leading to a crash), but... the next-best-alternative isn't the one that's supposed to be correct... So, will have at least a few more things to check before producing a testable version. Work's never done, it seems. But then, better to have too much to do than too little of it...
So anyway, today I'm more optimistic, can maybe finally start working on the AIX port soon. Can't be too complacent yet about the non-crashing-ness of today's custom build, though, since there's at least one problem I sort-of skipped over by choosing the well-if-that-doesnt-work-lets-try-the-next-best-alternative... Which does seem to work (or at least, is not leading to a crash), but... the next-best-alternative isn't the one that's supposed to be correct... So, will have at least a few more things to check before producing a testable version. Work's never done, it seems. But then, better to have too much to do than too little of it...