From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-01-13T17:57:59-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01139] Bug in String


     ruby> a = 'abcdef'
     "abcdef"
     ruby> a[1] = a
     "aaaaaaacdef"
     ruby> 

I think it's because str_replace uses memcpy on an overlapping string 
(two copies of RSTRING(a)->ptr in this case). memcpy is specified not
to work on overlapping strings.


I could produce a patch if you want.


Regards


Dave