From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2006-09-05T10:53:42+09:00
Subject: Re: rcov & Ruby 1.8.5

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Mauricio Fernandez wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 02:16:58PM +0900, John Carter wrote:
>> Is it my fevered imagination, or has Ruby-1.8.5 clobbered rcov-0.7.0,
>> causing it to segfault.

> This code was mostly taken from eval.c's backtrace(). It was changed on
> Jul 24, but the modification doesn't seem to imply that the above would
> segfault under 1.8.5. At any rate, here's the patch to mirror the new
> backtrace():
>
>
> diff -rN -u old-head/ext/rcovrt/rcovrt.c new-head/ext/rcovrt/rcovrt.c

Yip. That fixed it!

Thanks!


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