From: Kero <kero@...>
Date: 2005-11-12T00:07:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.3/HP-UX/[BUG] Bus Error

> Just had Ruby 1.8.3 installed on our HP-UX box, and it seems to be
> really misbehaving... I'm trying to promote Ruby here but this is
> giving it bad press.
>
> For example, the following code
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
> p ARGV
> ARGV.each do |fname |
>      puts "File: #{fname}"
>      loop do
>          break
>      end
> end
>
>  gives .....
>
>> xdump param
> ["param"]
> File: param
> /home/fcux_dev/tadb/bin/xdump:6: [BUG] Bus Error
> ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-21) [hppa2.0w-hpux11.11]
> Abort(coredump)
>>
> And in fact, this error ([BUG] Bus Error - what is it ?) seems to pop up
> at the slightest provocation, although some relatively complex
> ruby code seems to run ok.
> I didn't do the installation myself, but I suspect that the HP-UX
> bundled C compiler was used to do the installation.
> Could that be the problem ?

Hardly.
I compiled ruby 1.8.1 or so succesfully with cc, just tried ruby 1.8.4-preview1.
Both work fine with your code above.

NB: I'm not the sysadmin, so I have to use  ./configure --prefix=$HOME
you can try the same and see if you have better luck than your sysadmin.
Does miniruby have the same problem?

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-10-29) [hppa20.w-hpux11.11]
$ make test
test succeeded
$ make test-all
[some wsdl/iconv problem that I'll report on elsewhere.]

I don't think I managed to compile 1.8.1 with gcc,
haven't tried for 1.8.4-preview1.

Hth,
Kero.