GNU bug report logs - #36402
Installer: null pointer exception during partitioning

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Message #26 received at 36402 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 36402 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juan <r5jm <at> protonmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#36402: installation error
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 21:55:48 +0200

Howdy,

Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> I followed your advice and hid all destroy related functions behind
> pointer finalizers. I also added some unit tests to Guile-Parted.

Nice!

I tried “guix build guile-parted --with-branch=guile-parted=master”, but
that fails because ‘build-aux/test-driver.scm’ is missing from the repo,
I think.

It might be useful to add calls to ‘gc’ here and there in the tests to
stress-test memory management.

> I pushed everything but feel free to comment! Then, I'll make a new
> release and try to adapt the installer to those changes.

Awesome, thanks a lot!

Ludo’.

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