22 May
2011
22 May
'11
4:54 p.m.
Hi, Am 22.05.2011 16:41, schrieb Alexei Sheplyakov:
That patch is bogus. See http://www.ginac.de/pipermail/ginac-devel/2011-April/001870.html for more details. However, it's also harmless (and we broke the ABI anyway). Perhaps it's even
Bogus is a bit strong. We explicitly mention in the manual that one can use values from 0 to 255 as labels. If a user is obstinate enough to use 255, he might run into bug on certain machines. Yes, this is a lot of ifs and whens and I agree with you that this patch is unnecessary in most cases, but nevertheless it does prevent a potential problem.
a bit useful, as it will prevent similar nonsense patches from popping up.
:-) Regards, Jens