DAVEM TPF grant#2 report #59, #60

(this report covers two weeks)

For the last two weeks I continued work on making the stderr of builds
less noisy, and for blead to build, test, and be stderr-clean under
ASan -fsanitize=undefined.

Quite a few of the fixes are on cpan/ code, so I haven't pushed those to
blead, but rather to the branches davem/cpan-warn and davem/cpan-undef.
Shortly I'll be opening tickets / sending notifications to the relevant
CPAN authors.

Prior to this work,

    (Configure && make) 2>/tmp/errs

gave 700+ lines of output. With the stuff I've applied to blead, plus
the extra commits in the davem/cpan-warn branch, this reduces to 29 lines,
which are all generated by CPAN modules and are for which I don't have the
domain expertise to fix (I'll be raising tickets for those too).

With a further bunch of commits to blead that I pushed today, plus the
commits in davem/cpan-undef,

    clang -fsanitize=undefined

produces no extra test failures or output stderr on my system with clang
3.4. (I've just tried it with 3.6, and there is new noise which I haven't
addressed yet).

All of the above just applies to Linux with gcc or clang with default-ish
build options; I'm sure other platforms and compilers still give plenty of
noise

2014/12/15
     0:23 process p5p mailbox
     5:32 reduce amount of stderr stuff in build/test

2014/12/16
     0:17 process p5p mailbox
     5:39 reduce amount of stderr stuff in build/test

2014/12/17
     0:27 process p5p mailbox
     1:38 reduce amount of stderr stuff in build/test
     2:50 miscellaneous stuff

2014/12/19
     1:03 process p5p mailbox
     2:23 reduce amount of stderr stuff in build/test
     3:35 fix clang -fsanitize=undefined failures

2014/12/20
     3:41 fix clang -fsanitize=undefined failures

2014/12/21
     0:37 fix clang -fsanitize=undefined failures

# ----

2014/12/22
    12:04 fix clang -fsanitize=undefined failures

2014/12/23
     1:39 fix clang -fsanitize=undefined failures


2014/12/25
     2:02 process p5p mailbox


SUMMARY:
     21:36 fix clang -fsanitize=undefined failures
      2:50 miscellaneous stuff
      4:12 process p5p mailbox
     15:12 reduce amount of stderr stuff in build/test
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     43:50 TOTAL (HH::MM)


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• DAVEM TPF grant#2 report #59, #60 by Dave Mitchell
• Re: DAVEM TPF grant#2 report #59, #60 by Ricardo Signes
• Re: DAVEM TPF grant#2 report #59, #60 by Aristotle Pagaltzis