From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Date: 2006-12-01T03:01:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault, proc, eval, long string


On 30-Nov-06, at 12:09 PM, Wilson Bilkovich wrote:

> On 11/30/06, Bob Hutchison <hutch@recursive.ca> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm getting a 'Segmentation fault' in ruby 1.8.5 running on debian in
>> a Xen VPS. The same code running on OS X and a different version of
>> linux has no problems.
>>
>> The process to get this is maybe a little strange.
>>
>> 1) read a large file into a string (1.3MB)
>> 2) eval the string (the string is a single ruby proc definition that
>> when called will build an object structure in memory)
>> 3) call the proc --> Segmentation fault *very* soon after
>>
>
> Hrm. This looks similar to the problem reported here:
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/80435

Thanks for the link.

Could be, but that thread kind of petered out. There were some others  
that I found that didn't seem to resolve. There was one in Japanese  
that I certainly could not follow :-)

Cheers,
Bob

>

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