Re: Fwd: Re: Javascript and konq crash

Harri Porten wrote:

>On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
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>>>The dtoa code is really quite intricated.
>>>It seem to be called from a single point in kjs, in ustring.
>>>Perhaps for testing purposes another conversion method (with sprintf or a
>>>stringstream) could be used. If that works, the problem is indeed in dtoa.
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>The dtoa code was added by Apple as it makes some floating point 
>operations work the way they are specified in the standard. It looks like 
>it was taken from a rather ancient library though so it's not necessary 
>portable to today's hardware. Had to fix something for the Alpha 
>architecture already.
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>It should indeed by safe to just circumvent the calls into the library 
>routines and do simple conversions. They regressions should be 
>neglectable. Just study older versions of KJS to see how it was done.
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Harri:

Thanks for the pointer....  I am a complete newcomer to KDE / kfm 
development....

Where and how do I find earlier versions of KJS?  I am assuming there is 
a CVS/SVN/??? archive somewhere, along with a versioning guide?  And how 
far back do I need to go?

Thanks,

--Yan