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by spotrh
Thu Aug 23, 2012 8:32 pm
Forum: Open Discussion and Dev Announcements
Topic: Patch to improve irrXML's fast_atof
Replies: 11
Views: 5213

Re: Patch to improve irrXML's fast_atof

It's a maintenance thing. When (and not if) you discover some silly security vulnerability in IrrXML, we want to be able to patch it once and push it out, not hunt down every forked and embedded copy of irrXML that exists in our very large package universe. It's also a useful thing for picking up im...
by spotrh
Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:19 pm
Forum: Open Discussion and Dev Announcements
Topic: Patch to improve irrXML's fast_atof
Replies: 11
Views: 5213

Okay, here's a new patch (sorry that it isn't split out): http://spot.fedorapeople.org/irrlicht-1.7.2-fastatof-improvements-typefixes.patch It adds: * Portability to irrTypes.h for u16, s16, u32, s32, u64, s64 for at least MSC, Linux i386 and Linux x86_64. Should work everythere though. * strtol10 r...
by spotrh
Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:37 pm
Forum: Open Discussion and Dev Announcements
Topic: Patch to improve irrXML's fast_atof
Replies: 11
Views: 5213

Sorry for the delay on responding (I thought the forum would send me an email upon reply, but it doesn't seem to do that). The missing typedefs is a valid concern, although, because the rest of the typedefs in that header didn't seem to be completely portable, I didn't think it was a problem initial...
by spotrh
Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:32 pm
Forum: Open Discussion and Dev Announcements
Topic: Patch to improve irrXML's fast_atof
Replies: 11
Views: 5213

Patch to improve irrXML's fast_atof

Hi! I'm the Fedora maintainer for the Irrlicht Engine (and IrrXML). Recently, another Fedora contributor wanted to package up and include the Open Asset Import Library, aka assimp ( http://assimp.sourceforge.net/ ). During the review process, it was discovered that assimp was using a modified copy o...