From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2007-11-17T06:32:49+09:00
Subject: Re: segfault in ostruct with 1.8.6, where to get help?

 > -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Pack [mailto:rogerpack2005@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:16 PM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: segfault in ostruct with 1.8.6, where to get help?
> 
> run it in gdb, see if it gives you a better backtrace (?) try 
> to get a minimal test that violates it.  GL!
> 
> On Nov 16, 2007 8:11 AM, andrew taylor <aktxyz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello folks, not sure if this is the right place...
> >
> > I am using alot of ostructs.  Everything was fine with the 
> 1.8.5 I was 
> > using, but with 1.8.6 (p110) I see alot of segfaults...
> >
> > >> 0.upto(100) {|n| member.driver_process_member}
> > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/ostruct.rb:75: [BUG] Segmentation fault 
> ruby 1.8.6 
> > (2007-09-23) [i686-linux]
> >
> > I do not have a small test case, but I can reproduce it.
> >
> > The line in question (ostruct:75) is just defining the 
> setting for a 
> > new method, does not seem like a big deal.
> >
> > Any advice for getting to the bottom of this?  I'd hate to 
> go back to 1.8.5.

I couldn't break it:

ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]

require 'ostruct'

o = OpenStruct.new

10000.times{ o.foo }

"a".upto("zzz"){ |l|
   eval("o.#{l} = rand(5000)")
}

10000.times{ o.aa; o.bb; o.cc }

p o

Worked fine.

Regards,

Dan


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