From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-07-13T11:02:32+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-1.8.2: test.rb: Seg Fault in test_check "exception"

Hi,

In message "Re: ruby-1.8.2: test.rb: Seg Fault in test_check "exception""
    on Fri, 8 Jul 2005 08:40:47 +0900, me2faster@excite.com writes:

|I reduced the sample/test.rb to just the test_check "exception"
|section, and discovered that rb_raise_jump() in eval.c is trying to
|assign from _frame.prev or _frame.prev->prev, which have not been
|memory allocated correctly.  With the original source in place, the seg
|fault occurs at:
|
|*ruby_frame = *_frame.prev->prev;

We need more information, your platform, CPU, OS and others, with the
command line argument to configure script.  The more information the
better.  I'm afraid that some part of Ruby (especially GC) requires
special platform treatment, and you hit the point.

							matz.