[Rivet] All hail King David, Squisher of Antique Rivet Memory Bugs

David Grellscheid david.grellscheid at durham.ac.uk
Wed Apr 6 02:07:46 BST 2016


Too much praise. I own neither a slingshot nor a lyre nor have I been 
anointed with some special oil. C++11 is just a better language.

   David (not king) ((yet...))




On 05/04/2016 23:22, Andy Buckley wrote:
> Hi Riveters,
>
> Please pause for a moment in what you're doing and say a little prayer
> to David G, who has just fixed a bug in Rivet's internal memory handling
> that defeated me back in 2010 and has been (innocuously!) lurking among
> us for more than 5 years.
>
> The replacement of boost::shared_ptr with std::shared_ptr on the trunk
> finally provoked a sufficiently strong response to track it down. And
> now I can sleep at night.
>
> Thanks David, I owe you a drink ;-)
> Andy
>
> PS. In other news, the trunk is filling up with good things. Rivet 2.5.0
> is going to be a significant one.
>


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