Re: status of tn5250?

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017, Terrence Enger wrote:

> David Gibb's question about the need for this mailing list reminded me
> that I would really like to connect from Linux to an IBM/i.  Segfaults
> in tn5250 have stopped me from doing this for a long time, perhaps
> since I dropped 32-bit support during an O/S upgrade.

I've been using tn5250 for years on 64 bit without problems.  I have a few 
changes that I made a long time ago and made a tarball with them, 
available here:

http://www.chowhouse.com/~jimi/tn5250-0.17.5.tar.gz

> Digging in tn5250-0.17.4 showed that a couple of functions were
> implicitly declared, thus declared to return an int.  This truncates
> the return value to 32 bits, which is a bad thing for a pointer in a
> 64-bit environment.  I have fixed all implicit declarations, and now
> tn5250 (I have not tested the other programs) works so far as I have
> used it.  So a couple questions ...
>
> (*) Is my patch of interest to anybody?  Looking on sourceforge
>     <https://sourceforge.net/p/tn5250/patches/>, I see that an open
>     patch has been unchanged since 2013.  Not, mind you, that I can
>     see how to submit a patch.

I haven't used SourceForge for a very long time and honestly I don't 
remember the status of the code there.  I don't think I have the ability 
to post anything there anymore.  Send your patch to this mailing list in 
unified diff format and let's take a look at it.

> (*) I did all my changes with only language-level knowledge, without
>     understanding what the code is actually doing.  So, a code review
>     and testing of all the applications would be in order.  Who wants
>     to do a review?
>
> (*) `make check` found nothing to do.  Am I doing something wrong?

I don't think 'make check' does anything normally.

James Rich
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