From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2004-12-28T19:25:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Garbage collection trouble

>>>>> "A" == Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@lypanov.net> writes:

A> it still crashes even with GC.disable
A> therefore verifying that it isn't garbage collection causing the problem
A> thanks for the response :)


svg% tail -12 pull.rb

reader = FastPull.new File.read(ARGV[0])

# GC.disable

begin
  c = 0
  while reader.pull             # (C)
    GC.start                    # (B)
    p c+=1
  end
end
svg% 

svg% ruby pull.rb a.xml >  /dev/null
(eval):5: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i686-linux]

Aborted
svg%
 
svg% tail -12 pull.rb

reader = FastPull.new File.read(ARGV[0])

GC.disable

begin
  c = 0
  while reader.pull             # (C)
    GC.start                    # (B)
    p c+=1
  end
end
svg% 

svg% 

svg% ruby pull.rb a.xml >  /dev/null
svg% 

svg% ls -l a.xml
-rw-rw-r--    1 ts       ts        1837078 Dec 27 18:41 a.xml
svg% 



Guy Decoux