Ruby, pthreads, and HPUX 11

I'm finally trying to delve into the issue of Ruby not compiling 
properly on HPUX (11, in my case) when --enable-pthreads is set. (This 
is necessary in order to use, for instance, any Oracle module, since the 
Oracle libs are compiled against pthreads).

This references ruby-talk:107425 and ruby-talk:115767 (see the stack 
traces given in those threads).

I am compiling Ruby 1.8.2.

To review the issue: miniruby compiles fine, but when it is run, it dies 
in either shellwords.rb or ftools.rb (not sure what the determining 
factor is, in this case). I've managed to narrow it down and can get the 
following to segfault consistently:

   miniruby -e "loop { break }"

It appears to be an issue with memory being clobbered during a longjmp 
call. In the case of the one-liner above, the it is the longjmp that is 
invoked as a result of the 'break'.

I've managed to narrow it down to the following. In eval.c, there is a 
function "rb_yield_0" (line 4619). In "rb_yield_0", there is a variable 
"old_cref", which is used to save the value of the global "ruby_cref" 
(line 4645). On line 4727 an EXEC_TAG() is invoked (which does a setjmp, 
I believe). At this point, the value of old_cref is correct.

Later, when the 'break' statement causes a longjmp to be executed, 
execution resumes at line 4727. At this point, the value of old_cref is 
incorrect (0x00000000). I put various trace statements throughout the 
code (esp. rb_eval) and was able to see that the value in old_cref was 
correct up to the very moment that longjmp was called.

Thus, it appears that something is occuring in the longjmp call that 
clobbers the stack, but only when pthreads is linked in.

I am certainly in over my head here, and I have no idea where else to 
look, or what else to try. I'm hoping the above summary will ring some 
bells for someone, or at least suggest another avenue that I might try.

Thanks!

Jamis

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