Ruby + GCC4 on OS X (Was: Strange error messages using DRb/TupleSpace{

On Nov 15, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:

> Using
>
> $ ruby184p1 -v
> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-10-29) [powerpc-darwin8.3.0]
>
> or
>
> $ ruby182-orig -v
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0]
>
> or
>
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-21) [powerpc-darwin8.2.0]
>
> Using the scripts in [ruby-talk:165935] I receive strange errors  
> that crash the client process that all look like this:
>
> (druby://localhost:61676) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rinda/ 
> tuplespace.rb:446:in `move': undefined method `push'  
> for :compact!:Symbol (NoMethodError)
>         from (druby://localhost:61676) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/ 
> monitor.rb:229:in `synchronize'
>         from (druby://localhost:61676) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/ 
> rinda/tuplespace.rb:443:in `move'
>         from (druby://localhost:61676) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/ 
> drb.rb:1552:in `perform_without_block'
>         from (druby://localhost:61676) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/ 
> drb.rb:1512:in `perform'
>         from (druby://localhost:61676) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/ 
> drb.rb:1586:in `main_loop'
>         from (druby://localhost:61676) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/ 
> drb.rb:1582:in `main_loop'
>         from (druby://localhost:61676) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/ 
> drb.rb:1578:in `main_loop'
>         from (druby://localhost:61676) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/ 
> drb.rb:1427:in `run'
>         from (druby://localhost:61676) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/ 
> drb.rb:1424:in `run'
>         from (druby://localhost:61676) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/ 
> drb.rb:1344:in `initialize'
>         from (druby://localhost:61676) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/ 
> drb.rb:1624:in `start_service'
>         from (druby://localhost:61676) ts.rb:7
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rinda/rinda.rb:229:in `take'
>         from cl.rb:11
>
> The symbol name is always different.
>
> Using the same scripts on a FreeBSD machine I can't reproduce the  
> error.

Compiling Ruby with GCC 3.3 on OS X 10.4.x causes these problems to  
go away.

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