http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/ a place to store my stuff en Serendipity 1.5.3 - http://www.s9y.org/ Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:19:34 GMT http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/templates/default/img/s9y_banner_small.png http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/ 100 21 http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/73-Quality-control.html C http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/73-Quality-control.html#comments http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/wfwcomment.php?cid=73 0 http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=73 nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) <div class="serendipity_authorpic"><img src="http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/templates/default/img/Andreas__ads__Scherbaum.jpg" alt="Author" title="Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum" /><br /><span>Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum</span></div><p class="break"> <p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Got a piece of software into my hands, a driver for a DSL box. No Makefile's in the archive, no documentation, nothing. Just some directories with a lot of subdirectories and a buzzword &quot;feature&quot;: a lot of code is self-generated from XML files.</font></p><br /><br /><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Ok, some steps later, i ran into a compiler error: &quot;error: invalid lvalue in assignment&quot;. Uff ...</font></p><br /><br /><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">After deep debugging into a lot of recursive and self-creating include files, there was this specific error:</font></p><br /><br /><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">(xml_user_context_t *)ucontext = __c_ctxt-&gt;global-&gt;uctxt;</font></p><br /><br /><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">After moving the cast part to the (in every meaning) right side of the assignment, things are working. At least for this part.</font></p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I bet, this was never compiling before, but it was released software from the manufacturer of the chips ...</font></p></p> Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:00:27 +0100 http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/73-guid.html