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Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/ham/xnec2c
From: Makoto Fujiwara
Date: 2014-10-14 02:42:13
Message id: 20141014004213.830B198@cvs.netbsd.org
Log Message:
Update xnec2c 2.3-beta to 3.0
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Version 2.4:
I submitted xnec2c (and nec2c) for scanning to the Coverity source code
audit website, which produced a list of no less than 57 issues to be
fixed! Most of them were not bugs that affected calculations but possibly
two, both in the Somnec code, one in function rom1() and one in gshank()
likely could have caused errors in the relevant
calculations. Unfortunately the Fortran source of Somnec (as well as that
of the NEC2) is very difficult to read so I cannot say with certainty if
this was so.
Version 2.5:
After a bug report by Jean Collin, I made some changes to the input file
parser code in input.c, to properly identify tabs in the input file.
Version 2.6:
After a bug report by Lucjan SQ9VPA, I changed the case of the signal
handler that deals with SIGCHLD so that it doesn't cause xnec2c to exit
when the SIGCHLD signal does not originate from child processes created
by xnec2c. It appears that in some Linux installations a SIGCHLD signal
is sent to xnec2c even if it is not running forked, e.g. the -j option is
not used in the command line.
Version 2.7:
After a bug report by Tim, WJ5Q, I fixed a bug that was preventing the
creation of an LD card of type 5 (LDTYP=5) when wire conductivity (S/m)
was specified in the GW card (Wire) editor. The same bug was present in
the GH (Helix) card editor and it was also fixed. I added code so that
the wire conductivity for GW, GA and GH cards can be read from the
relevant LD card and shown in the Conductivity (S/m) spin button.
After all these changes I checked the xnec2c source code using the
Coverity Scan service and I fixed an out-of-bounds read error that was
reported by the scanner, in the plot_freqdat.c file.
Version 2.8:
Fixed a bug in the GN card editor function which caused xnec2c to save
the GN card parameters in the .nec antenna description file without
clearing the number of radials to zero. This resulted in the GN card
editor window to open with confusing and incorrect defaults for the
radial screen, when the Reflection Coefficient Approximation method was
selected for specifying ground parameters.
Also fixed some bugs (missing variable initializations) in the Ground
Parameters calculation functions which resulted in incorrect Radiation
Pattern calculations. This would happen if a .nec file, with Perfect
Ground (iperf = 1) specified in the GN card, was opened after a .nec
file, with a Radial Ground Screen specified in the GN card, was
processed.
Version 2.9:
After a request by the Debian maintainer of xnec2c, I added a rudimentary
man page he sent me and corrected some spelling errors (arbitary to
arbitrary).
Version 3.0:
I have modified the NEC2 file parser so that it can read the file with
both the '.' and ',' as decimal point characters. This is necessary to
make xnec2c compatible with different locales. I also fixed a resource
(memory) leak, reported by valgrind, in the xyz axes drawing routine.
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