Subj : Release of v3.4?
To   : Ulrich Schroeter
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Sat May 25 2013 01:02:55

   Hello Ulrich!

24 May 13 03:05, you wrote to Kees van Eeten:

 US> last year I've also reported an DOS bug in the write message / logging
 US> routine 'caused probably by a compiler bug of the watcom DOS
 US> version problem in makenl_ng fixed with a "special" stack pointer fix
 US> (inofficaly labeled 3.2.9b) closed ticket:
 US> http://sourceforge.net/p/makenl/bugs/8/ effected files: msgtool.c,
 US> mklog.c

 US> I've wrote and tested the fix with help from Markus and Alex  :)

Your contributions are greatly appreciated.

 US> Later this year, I've found in another research a document, that
 US> pointed out, that there exist potentialy a stack handling problem in
 US> OpenWatcom 1.9 that has some similarity with my bug found in makenl_ng
 US> starting rev 3.2.6

I've been wondering if that could be the case; as the problems seem to be 
occurring in the versions compiled with OpenWatcom.

 US> currently it varies from day to day ... Wed last week till Tue this
 US> week I was 150% busy :-( and started recovery mode on Wed this week to
 US> the state one week before :-P

Life has a tendency to throw those curves at us at times...

 KE>>  But the lead maintainer should be aware of who else can be of
 KE>> help.

 US> for OpenWatcom 1.9 (DOS) and GCC OS/2 I can try a compile test
 US> and a software test
 US> software testing is possible also under win32

Currently OpenWatcom 1.9 is used to compile the DOS, OS/2, and Win32 versions. 
The Linux version can be compiled with several different compilers, thanks to 
the work of Andrew Clarke.  The statically-linked Linux binary that was 
hatched for the last release was built using gcc 4.5.2 under Slackware Linux 
13.37.

Andrew


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