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Subject: Re: Please help test gerrit#890

Re: Please help test gerrit#890

From: Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 18:30:25 +1000

On 4 July 2014 16:21, Thomas Martitz <kugel_at_rockbox.org> wrote:
>
> Why do you except this to fix skin issues? It only _adds_ fragile pointer
> management. What's wrong with the current aproach?
>
> What's wrong with the current approach is that it is extremely difficult
to track down bugs when they happen, and that the code itself is quite
bloated (seriously +5k to do offset after adding all the code to move the
pointers!). This way when there is an issue we get a lovely data abort with
a PC.
Received on 2014-07-05

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