From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-10-28T01:25:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug segmentation fault

Gavin Kistner wrote:
> From: list-bounce@example.com
> > I am trying to display the contents of large array (over 1000 rows)
> > using arrayName.collect {|x| puts x.inspect}
> > However the following occurs:
> >
> > [Bug] Segmentation fault
> > ruby 1.8.5 (20006-08-25) [i386-mswin32]
>
> I have no idea if it will make a different, but do you realize that by
> calling collect you are creating an array whose entries are the return
> value of puts (which is always nil). An array of over 1000 nil entries.
>
> I think you probably want either:
> arrayName.each{ |x| puts x.inspect }
> or
> puts arrayName.collect{ |x| x.inspect }

True, but it shouldn't segfault in any case.  I'm curious what the
objects of arrayName look like.  I was not able to duplicate this
problem with a 10000 element array of simple objects.

Regards,

Dan