From: Guaracy Monteiro <guaracybm@...>
Date: 2002-09-04T05:54:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Segfault: Marshaling large objects

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Duncan" <pabs@pablotron.org>

(...)

> pabs@picard:~/proj/marshaltest> cat ./marshaltest.rb 
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> 
> s = '%10d' % 1; # Create Smaller string
> d = Marshal.dump(s);  # Dump it                                      
> t = Marshal.load(d);  # Load it
> puts 'okay'
> 
> s = '%10000000d' % 1; # Create 10Mb string                          
> d = Marshal.dump(s);  # Dump it                                      
> t = Marshal.load(d);  # Load it -- causes segfault
> 
> pabs@picard:~/proj/marshaltest> gdb ~/cvs/ruby/ruby
> Starting program: /home/pabs/cvs/ruby/ruby ./marshaltest.rb
> okay
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
(...)

> I perused the source but didn't see anything really obvious.  I'll take
> a better look after lunch.

The sources is ok (i think). No problems to run on Windows ME 64Mb.

ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i586-mswin32] (from Pragmatic Programmer's)
and
ruby 1.7.3 (2002-09-02) [i386-cygwin] (from CVS)

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