From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-06-02T13:17:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.6.7 dieing of segfault

On 2002.06.02, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu.nokada@softhome.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Sun, 2 Jun 2002 13:00:37 +0900,
> Dossy wrote:
> > I've got something that's fairly reproducible in 1.6.7.
> 
> What did you do?  How can I reproduce it?

Heh.  Run the Ruby program I'm writing ... inside of 3 minutes,
it throws the error.  Random place in the application, too.  Not
a particular line of code that's causing it.

> > Is the latest Ruby "stable enough" to use -- is it better
> > than 1.6.7?
> (snip)
> > # ruby -v
> > ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-19) [i386-linux]
> 
> In fact, some bugs have been fixed after 1.6.7 had released,
> but I'm not sure if this is fixed already.

I'm building 1.7.2 (as checked out of CVS just now) and II'll
see if this fixes the problem.  If not, I'll try to debug harder.

-- Dossy

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