[ltt-dev] LTTV BUG: Recent upgrades broke the JNI interface

[Matthew Khouzam]

On 10-09-08 05:47 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * Alexandre Montplaisir (alexandre.montplaisir at polymtl.ca) wrote:
>    
>>      
>>>> You don't want a patch that makes the JNI functions access
>>>> "marker_field->_offset", do you? I can carry it out-of-tree to restore
>>>> the previous functionality (and compilability (is that a word?)) for
>>>> TMF, until they change their parser methods, since they'll probably get
>>>> hit by the same bug as LTTV.
>>>>          
>>> Please don't do buggy workarounds at the library level to leave TMF
>>> causy with its current bugs please. They must fix their app to upgrade
>>> to the newer library version, period. I'm afraid we cannot release the
>>> TMF package until they do.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mathieu
>>>        
>> "Your package is now uploading..."
>> Ctrl-C, Ctrl-C...
>>
>> But still, don't you think a mostly working app with a "KNOWN BUGS:"
>> disclaimer is better than a completely non-working one? I guess they can
>> use an older version, which isn't much better.
>>      
> Leave TMF with the old version until they adapt then.
>
> And common.. this is going to take a jiffy to fix. Why has this not been
> done yet ? The new library has been out for a few weeks already.
>    

The main reason is that no-one tested the latest and greatest version of 
libtraceread for the moment. We are currently working on narowing the 
gap with lttv on all versions of the library. That being said, a patch 
on TMF's side will be available soonish.

Matthew

> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu
>
>    
>> Matthew: How long do you think it'd take to get fixed? It will require
>> adjustments both in the jni_interface.c and the JniParser.java code in
>> TMF, if I remember right.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alexandre
>>
>>      
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Alexandre
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Mathieu
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>      
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