AUDIT: r17840 - gnucash/trunk/src/register/ledger-core - Register: Add additional debugging output during register cleanup. Also rename a variable for clarity and to match typical usage in the rest of the ledger code.

Phil Longstaff plongstaff at rogers.com
Sat Jan 24 08:33:47 EST 2009


On January 24, 2009 01:15:10 am Charles Day wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> > Innocuously-seeming changes often come back to bite us.  Just look
> > at the one-line change put into 2.2.8 that causes "close invoice"
> > to crash!
>
> Agreed, however this particular changeset (r17841) doesn't change any
> functionality - it is all edits to comments except in two spots where a
> function declaration in the .h file had a different parameter name from in
> the .c file. Simple typos -- I just made them match.  Anyway that changeset
> is just for documentation, so no problem, no need to backport it. There
> will be another doxygen changeset committed soon. I won't mark that one for
> backport.

I've seen an innocuous change to a comment cause a problem - the comment was 
left unclosed and gobbled up code until the next comment.  Do our compiler 
flags catch comment opening within a comment?

Phil


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