From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2004-08-10T11:49:47+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.8.2 preview bug?


From: "Chad Fowler" <chad@chadfowler.com>

> I haven't had time to really investigate this, but I've boiled it down
> to a stupid repeatable test case.
> $ cat mm.rb
> class Bug
>    define_method("asdf") {
>      asdf
>    }
> end
> Bug.new.asdf
>
> $ /usr/local/bin/ruby -v mm.rb
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [powerpc-darwin7.4.0]
> ^CIllegal instruction
>
> It also seems to be an old problem:
>
> $ ruby -v mm.rb
> ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i686-linux]
> Segmentation fault
>
>
> Chad
>


I think this is what should happen (and _does_ on Windows).

-----
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-05-15) [i386-mswin32]
   - and -
ruby 1.9.0 (2004-06-25) [i586-bccwin32]
-----

C:/TEMP/rbA082.TMP:3:in `asdf': stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
 from C:/TEMP/rbA082.TMP:2:in `asdf'
 from C:/TEMP/rbA082.TMP:3:in `asdf'
 from C:/TEMP/rbA082.TMP:2:in `asdf'
 from C:/TEMP/rbA082.TMP:3:in `asdf'
 from C:/TEMP/rbA082.TMP:2:in `asdf'
 from C:/TEMP/rbA082.TMP:3:in `asdf'
 from C:/TEMP/rbA082.TMP:2:in `asdf'
 from C:/TEMP/rbA082.TMP:3:in `asdf'
  ... 2746 levels...
 from C:/TEMP/rbA082.TMP:2:in `asdf'
 from C:/TEMP/rbA082.TMP:3:in `asdf'
 from C:/TEMP/rbA082.TMP:2:in `asdf'
 from C:/TEMP/rbA082.TMP:6


Same as with a def:

class Bug
   def asdf
     asdf
   end
end
Bug.new.asdf

#  ... 1441 levels...


:daz





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