I don't recall ever doing anything with checksums ... although I will
not disown most of the rest of the pmnscomp stuff, including the obscene
32-bit and 64-bit binary format relocation on loading ... yuk!
On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 14:17 +1000, Mark Goodwin wrote:
>
> Max Matveev wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 May 2008 10:08:10 +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> >
> > nscott> I hate to ask, after the (ongoing) pain the last such request
> > nscott> seems to have invoked, but can someone "over there" do a p_rlog
> > nscott> on pmnscomp.c (and/or src/libpcp/src/pmns.c) and see when the
> > nscott> v2 PMNS checksum code was added (and maybe fwd on the checkin
> > nscott> message?).
> > it was there from the very beginning of the history - pmnscomp.c 1.1
> > in the pre-baobab trees has this code. And that goes back to
> >
> > revision 1.1
> > date: 1997/03/21 05:03:01; author: markgw; state: Exp;
> > Performance Co-Pilot in IRIX: pcp_eoe
> >
> > max
>
> nah, it goes further back than that. We moved lots of stuff
> (effectively what is now pcp-open) from a separate ism into
> pcp_eoe in IRIX in 1997, at which point the revision history
> restarted. I think Ken was probably the original author ..
>
> Cheers
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