From: Bob Hutchison Date: 2006-04-19T06:42:24+09:00 Subject: Re: Very Strange Error(s) I found this just now. Looks pretty relevant. Seems as though a re-compile with -O0 might be a work around. Some suggestion that using gcc 3.3 might work too. On Apr 18, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Bob Hutchison wrote: > Hi, > > I've been encountering strange behaviour with Ruby recently. I'm > wondering if anybody has seen anything like this before or if > anyone has any ideas. > > Here's what's happening: > > - something that should be a String turns out to be an Integer > - if I run the same method call again, say by using a > begin...rescue in a loop, and I loop a few times it eventually > works with identical input -- if I do run it again, and if an error > occurs again, it is usually in a different place > - long running Ruby process (actually Rails running webrick in > development mode) -- I *think* I've never seen this in a short > running process > - the frequency of the error does not seem to increase (so once it > happens it does not start happening all the time, the system seems > to be behaving properly) > - error happens during a request by the user. > - error normally quite deep in an execution stack > - ruby 1.8.4 (2006-03-28) [powerpc-darwin8.5.0] -- that's OS X > - I've had this happen in XML parsers (REXML and xampl-pp), in > rubyful soup, and in some code that simply prints a tree of objects > - I cannot reproduce it reliably > > The going away on second or third try is particularly strange. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Bob > > ---- > Bob Hutchison -- blogs at hutch/> > Recursive Design Inc. -- > Raconteur -- > xampl for Ruby -- xampl/> > > > > ---- Bob Hutchison -- blogs at Recursive Design Inc. -- Raconteur -- xampl for Ruby --