From: David Flanagan <david@...>
Date: 2007-10-24T04:32:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple One liner crashes YARV trap ('INT', &oldTrap) crashes Ruby 1.9.0 code generator

Brent,

Turns out that Nobu has already checked in a patch to fix this.

	David

Brent Roman wrote:
> David,
> 
> Bingo!!!
> 
> You found it!
> 
> Try running this instead:
> 
> $ ruby1.9 -v -e 'trap    ("INT", &oldTrap)'
> 
> Note that I'm porting from v1.6.8, where spaces between method name and
> opening paren of an arg list did not generate a warning.
> 
> I still don't understand why these spaces should cause a parsing headache.
> Maybe someone could enlighten me...
> 
> In any case, I'm running Gentoo Linux here and was able to quickly
> verify that the whitespace between trap and the '(' trigger the crash.
> So, its very easy to avoid :-)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Should I file a bug report on this?  (where?)
> Should I try to generate a patch myself?
> 
> - brent
> 
>