From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-12-04T08:41:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby + GCC4 on OS X (Was: Strange error messages using DRb/TupleSpace{

On Dec 3, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:

> 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.

I get the same behavior with 1.8.4p2 and GCC4.0 vs GCC3.3.  GCC4  
fails after some time while GCC3.3 gives a stable Ruby.

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