Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Sorry, this list does not claim completeness. If I fixed a bug |
| 2 | immediately upon receiving the first complaint I usually did not |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | nother to make an entry in this file, unless it was a serious bug |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | (core dump or infinite loop). |
| 5 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | ==> Status indicators: (-) not fixed; (*) fixed; (?) don't know what to do. |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | |
| 8 | ====================================================================== |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | BUGS found in 1.0.3 and not yet fixed |
| 10 | ------------------------------------- |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | (-) print_error raises and then masks an error if softspace is not |
Guido van Rossum | 2b11c61 | 1994-10-06 16:36:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | defined (can't reproduce this one?) |
Guido van Rossum | fda5fb2 | 1994-08-12 13:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | |
Guido van Rossum | 2b11c61 | 1994-10-06 16:36:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | (*) Syntax errors are reported in a silly way if multi-line tokens are |
Guido van Rossum | fda5fb2 | 1994-08-12 13:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | involved. |
| 17 | |
Guido van Rossum | 2b11c61 | 1994-10-06 16:36:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | (*) SyntaxError exception for compile('...') are reported wrongly |
Guido van Rossum | fda5fb2 | 1994-08-12 13:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | (lineno is always zero and offset is offset into the whole string). |
| 20 | |
Guido van Rossum | 2b11c61 | 1994-10-06 16:36:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | (*) freeze script needs major rewrite to cope with multiple extensions |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | (Jack seems to have fixed it now -- where is it?) |
| 23 | |
Guido van Rossum | 2b11c61 | 1994-10-06 16:36:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | (*) various memory leaks (see purify report from anthony.baxter@aaii.oz.au) |
| 25 | (several leaks fixed anyway :-) |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | |
| 27 | BUGS found in 1.0.3 and fixed in 1.1 |
| 28 | ------------------------------------ |
| 29 | |
| 30 | (*) unwanted entries in stack trace if err_clear() clears an error |
| 31 | that also set a stack trace |
| 32 | |
| 33 | (*) i, x[i] = a, b assigns b to x[a] rather than to x[i] as expected |
| 34 | (documented with a warning in ref6.tex!) |
| 35 | |
| 36 | (*) etags no longer supports -t flag |
| 37 | |
| 38 | (*) compile.c:com_argdefs() references unalloc'ed memory for def |
| 39 | f(a=1,): ... |
| 40 | |
| 41 | (*) If you have a python binary in your path like |
Guido van Rossum | fda5fb2 | 1994-08-12 13:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | /ufs/guido/bin/sgi/python then the default prefix option computed by |
| 43 | the configure script is bogus! |
| 44 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | (*) Make rule for making lib*.a should remove the lib*.a file first. |
Guido van Rossum | fda5fb2 | 1994-08-12 13:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | (*) vars() error message is wrong (copied from dir() obviously). |
| 48 | |
| 49 | (*) socket.gethostname() is undocumented. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | (*) rfc822.py: getfirst* dies when multiple headers occur |
| 52 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | (*) urllib caching is wrong (should use date from Expires header) |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | |
| 55 | (*) On a related matter: regexpr.c still has two malloc()s the results |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | of which are not tested for being NULL (lines 1253 and 1530). There |
| 57 | are also some in rgbimagemodule.c. Am I overlooking something or is |
Guido van Rossum | fda5fb2 | 1994-08-12 13:18:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | this a crasher? |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 59 | |
| 60 | (*) strop.rindex('abc', '') returns 0 instead of 3 |
| 61 | |
| 62 | (*) sunaudiodevmodule.o is too long! |
| 63 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | (*) toplevel README needs new text on PC and Mac builds |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | |
| 66 | (*) long(0x80000000) has wrong value! |
| 67 | |
| 68 | ====================================================================== |
| 69 | Bugs found in 1.0.2 and not yet fixed |
| 70 | ------------------------------------- |
| 71 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | (?) compiler warnings about argument type of uname() on ULTRIX |
| 73 | machines (don't know what to do about it) |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | (?) syntax error for interactive input prints garbage instead of last |
| 76 | source line on some systems (e.g. AIX) (impossible to test/reproduce) |
| 77 | !!! I think I've found this one -- a missing INCREF in print_error! |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | |
| 79 | (?) (maybe) a bad .pyc file (with old magic number) causes the .py |
| 80 | file to be ignored |
| 81 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | (?) Sunos4.0.2 / 386 configure bugs: |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | - timelocal instead of mktime |
| 84 | - unistd.h doesn't declare some functions |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | (don't know what to do about this) |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | |
| 87 | Bugs found in 1.0.2 and fixed in 1.0.3 |
| 88 | -------------------------------------- |
| 89 | |
| 90 | (*) nasty bug in string formatting (see test_types.py, search for %) |
| 91 | |
| 92 | (*) if a triple-quoted string ends in a quote followed by a newline |
| 93 | (followed immediately by the terminating 3 quotes) then a syntax error |
| 94 | or system error ensues |
| 95 | |
| 96 | (*) bug in socket.listen: clipping backlog to >= 1 doesn't work |
| 97 | |
| 98 | (*) two bogus XDEL's in Modules/regexmodule.reg_dealloc() |
| 99 | |
| 100 | (*) Parser/myreadline.my_fgets: #endif EINTR misplaced |
| 101 | |
| 102 | (*) new IP address for ftp.cwi.nl !!! |
| 103 | |
| 104 | (*) typing vars() to interactive prompt runs into infinite loop |
| 105 | because of '_' |
| 106 | |
| 107 | (*) tokenizer/tok_nextc() runs into infinite loop when file does not |
| 108 | end in linefeed |
| 109 | |
| 110 | (*) Sunos4.0.2 / 386 configure bugs: |
| 111 | (*) - use size_t at some places without including sys/types.h |
| 112 | (*) - missing clock_t |
| 113 | (*) - uses SEEK_SET in some places that don't include unistd.h |
| 114 | |
| 115 | ====================================================================== |
| 116 | Bugs found in 1.0.1 and not yet fixed |
| 117 | ------------------------------------- |
| 118 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 119 | (?) modsupport.c(vmkvalue): on systems where va_list is an array, the |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 120 | calls to do_mkvalue and do_mktuple don't want an "&" before va. |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 121 | (don't know what to do about this) |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 122 | |
| 123 | (?) threads are slow on Solaris 2 |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 124 | (so what?) |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 125 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 126 | (*) threads cause myreadline.c's readline() to think it sees an EOF. |
| 127 | (I *think* I've fixed this, by testing for EINTR) |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 128 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 129 | (?) min() on PC version generates wrong result (i.e. same as max()) |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | [this happens on SoftPC -- don't know about other systems] |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | (can't find the reason -- may be SoftPC bug) |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 133 | (*) flp.py cache bug: if the cache only contains one form, asking for |
| 134 | all forms returns only the cached form |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 135 | |
| 136 | Bugs found in 1.0.1 and fixed in 1.0.2 |
| 137 | -------------------------------------- |
| 138 | |
| 139 | (*) core dump when parser.parsefile() called |
| 140 | |
| 141 | (*) man page contains a mess before -d option |
| 142 | |
| 143 | (*) threads don't work on IRIX 4 |
| 144 | |
| 145 | (*) wrong cast of svideo_getattr in svmodule.c |
| 146 | |
| 147 | (*) bad return value in runpython.c's run_tty_1() |
| 148 | |
| 149 | (*) creating dict of 100,000 objects gets MemoryError or dumps core |
| 150 | |
| 151 | (*) freeze script doesn't work |
| 152 | |
| 153 | ====================================================================== |
| 154 | BUGS found in 1.0.0 and not yet fixed |
| 155 | ------------------------------------- |
| 156 | |
| 157 | (?) On NeXT, need to define _POSIX_SOURCE. |
| 158 | |
| 159 | (?) there appears to be something wrong with gcc and -ldl on some |
| 160 | SunOS 4.1.3 systems |
| 161 | |
Guido van Rossum | c561e5d | 1994-08-23 13:52:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 162 | (?) jredfords reports core dump with float literals |
Guido van Rossum | 5552eb7 | 1994-08-05 15:51:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 163 | |
| 164 | BUGS found in 1.0.0 and fixed in 1.0.1 |
| 165 | -------------------------------------- |
| 166 | |
| 167 | (*) On SGI IRIX 4 using cc, compilation errors in md5module.c. |
| 168 | |
| 169 | (*) In cdmodule.c, getattr initialized with (destructor)! |
| 170 | |
| 171 | (*) Lib/tzparse.py runs test() on import |
| 172 | |
| 173 | (*) Lib/filewin.py belongs in Lib/stdwin |
| 174 | |
| 175 | (*) lib and man install targets don't use $(srcdir) |
| 176 | |
| 177 | (*) Modules/rgbimgmodule.c: exception name contains comma instead of dot |
| 178 | |
| 179 | (*) The FAQ still references misc/EXTENDING and misc/DYNLOAD etc |
| 180 | |
| 181 | (*) The FAQ still describes how to work around a problem in 0.9.9 exec() |
| 182 | |
| 183 | (*) Lib/aifc.py, returns float rate, should be int |
| 184 | |
| 185 | (*) Lib/sunau.py, incorrectly cumputes byte count from frame rate |
| 186 | |
| 187 | (*) README should mention possibility of passing OPT=-g to make |
| 188 | |
| 189 | (*) dynamic loading on sunos 4.1.3 must call dlopen(..., 1) |
| 190 | |
| 191 | (*) use of <varargs.h> vs. <stdarg.h> should depend on |
| 192 | HAVE_STDARG_PROTOTYPES, not on HAVE_STDARG_H |
| 193 | |
| 194 | (*) Doc/README refers to Misc/FTP which in fact does not exist any more |
| 195 | |
| 196 | (*) filter(None, 'abcdefg') dumps core |
| 197 | |
| 198 | (*) once you interrupt time.sleep(), there is no interrupt handler! |
| 199 | |
| 200 | ====================================================================== |
| 201 | end of file |