[ruby-core:30295] [Bug #3313] object has the wrong type during long-running test

Bug #3313: object has the wrong type during long-running test
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3313

Author: caleb clausen
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
ruby -v: ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]

To reproduce this bug:
  gem install sequence
  cd /tmp #or some other suitable dir
  git clone git://github.com/coatl/rubylexer.git
  cd rubylexer
  ruby -Ilib test/code/heredoc_blast_test.rb
  #now wait, up to 4 hours for the test to either complete or fail.

This runs the same test (parsing heredocuments with rubylexer) over and over. Very rarely, the test will fail, and I don't know why. It actually fails inside sequence, a support library for rubylexer. The stack trace indicates that in notify_change on line 700 of sequence.rb, @change_listeners contains an object of the wrong type (an Array instead of a Sequence). The only place where things are put into @change_listeners is in on_change_notify, just above notify_change. That method carefully checks that the item inserted into @change_listeners is of the right type (responds to change_notification) before adding it. 

@change_listeners is a WeakRefSet, and thus weak references are involved. It's possible that I'm not handling those weak references correctly in weakrefset.rb, but I've been over that code repeatedly and it seems to be correct. define_finalizer is used to keep the WeakRefSet notified when one of its members is gc'd, and the WeakRefSet then dutifully removes the dying object. 

I'm reporting this for 1.8.7, but I've seen it on (fairly recent vintages of) 1.8.6 as well. It may well also be a problem for 1.9 versions of ruby, but when I try to test for this problem on 1.9, I run straight into bug #2502, which prevents the test from running long enough to see this problem.

I'm sorry for all the code and time needed to reproduce this one. I did try to boil it down to a smaller case, but with only slight success. 


Here's the erroneous output.

ruby -Ilib test/code/heredoc_blast_test.rb 
Loaded suite test/code/heredoc_blast_test
Started
Eskipping __testcase_10__; not legal
.skipping __testcase_11__; not legal
.Eskipping __testcase_2__; not legal
.skipping __testcase_3__; not legal
.skipping __testcase_4__; not legal
.skipping __testcase_5__; not legal
.skipping __testcase_6__; not legal
.skipping __testcase_7__; not legal
.skipping __testcase_8__; not legal
.skipping __testcase_9__; not legal
.
Finished in 956.663375 seconds.

  1) Error:
testcase_0__(LexerTests):
NoMethodError: undefined method `change_notification' for [-611168978]:Array
    /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sequence-0.2.3/lib/sequence.rb:700:in `notify_change'
    /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sequence-0.2.3/lib/sequence/weakrefset.rb:99:in `each'
    /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sequence-0.2.3/lib/sequence/weakrefset.rb:87:in `each_key'
    /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sequence-0.2.3/lib/sequence/weakrefset.rb:87:in `each'
    /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sequence-0.2.3/lib/sequence.rb:699:in `notify_change'
    /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sequence-0.2.3/lib/sequence/list.rb:258:in `modify'
    ./lib/rubylexer.rb:2324:in `here_header'
    ./lib/rubylexer.rb:2387:in `lessthan__no_offset'
    (eval):6:in `lessthan'
    ./lib/rubylexer/charhandler.rb:86:in `send'
    ./lib/rubylexer/charhandler.rb:86:in `go'
    ./lib/rubylexer/rulexer.rb:92:in `rulexer_get1token'
    ./lib/rubylexer.rb:292:in `get1token'
    (eval):145:in `testcase_0__'
    (eval):3:in `times'
    (eval):3:in `testcase_0__'

  2) Error:
testcase_1__(LexerTests):
NoMethodError: undefined method `change_notification' for [-611406058]:Array
    /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sequence-0.2.3/lib/sequence.rb:700:in `notify_change'
    /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sequence-0.2.3/lib/sequence/weakrefset.rb:99:in `each'
    /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sequence-0.2.3/lib/sequence/weakrefset.rb:87:in `each_key'
    /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sequence-0.2.3/lib/sequence/weakrefset.rb:87:in `each'
    /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sequence-0.2.3/lib/sequence.rb:699:in `notify_change'
    /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sequence-0.2.3/lib/sequence/list.rb:258:in `modify'
    ./lib/rubylexer.rb:2324:in `here_header'
    ./lib/rubylexer.rb:2387:in `lessthan__no_offset'
    (eval):6:in `lessthan'
    ./lib/rubylexer/charhandler.rb:86:in `send'
    ./lib/rubylexer/charhandler.rb:86:in `go'
    ./lib/rubylexer/rulexer.rb:92:in `rulexer_get1token'
    ./lib/rubylexer.rb:292:in `get1token'
    (eval):294:in `testcase_1__'
    (eval):152:in `times'
    (eval):152:in `testcase_1__'

12 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 2 errors


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