Jason Lewis' issue on 64-bit Linux: 'cannot open filename XXX': FIXED (unless y'all find remaining cruftiness inside the new code)

Ladies & Gentlemen,

I consider this issue fixed. It has been tested today and should fix
quite a few older bug reports about the same randomly occurring errors
too.
Verify my work to make sure.

For the Full Monty, see
  http://hebbut.net/crm114/20080525/index.html
where diff's and complete source files are provided.

or go to
  http://www.hebbut.net/
and click:
  Public Offerings > CRM114 > Extra Info & Miscellaneous Tidbits:
2008/05/25 The Fix > (bingo!)


I admit the backport of the GerH code described in the web article is
done sledgehammer style, but I have taken time for the 'long' issue
before and did not plan on replaying THAT particular exercise again
today: hence a backport which should mesh well with the remaining
vanilla 'long'-based source code as is. It may look weird to the
uninitiated, but know a little bit of preprocessor and you're good to
go.
I guarantee you it's safe.

(Hm, I should consider putting up a 'fee per bug' system where anyone
finding a bug in my code gets a fee for quality control... :-) )




Two things of low relevance:

1) Jason's maillib.crm (a BlameSentansoken build) contained a bit of
magic which is not tolerated by a GerH compiled crm114 binary as it
considers this illegal code:

	    eval /:@: :#:m_text: < (:*:decision_length: / 4) :/

which has also been fixed in vanilla BlameJason releases (Jason is
using BlameSentansoken, that's why):

	    eval /:@: :#:m_text: < (:*:decision_length: \/ 4) :/

Note the backslash-escaped division operator. This has been discussed
recently on this or the dev mailing list - I forgot which, but not
really relevant, is it?


2) Of course, GerH compiled binaries on 64-bit DO NOT ACCEPT
vanilla/BillY CSS FILES OUT OF THE BOX.
THIS IS BECAUSE GerH uses exact 32-bit entities to store the 32-bit
feature hashes, while vanilla code uses variable-width 'long's.

A migration path for such (production) files is planned for a future
release using a conversion script and the new cssmigrate command.



That's it for today. Bed time. One weekend down, many more to go.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten / Best regards,

Ger Hobbelt

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