From: Martin Hart <martin@...>
Date: 2004-02-22T01:18:31+09:00
Subject: YAML Aborting with large data set?


Hi all,

I have a large document in yaml which I can't load or dump using YAML in ruby 
because it segfaults.  I have searched the archives and I wonder if this 
error is similar to that described in the ruby-talk thread "Syck 0.35 + 
YAML.rb 0.60 -- the 1st stable release".  However in that thread I believe 
that multi-threaded scripts were the main cause for concern...

This bugs out on all of my development machines:

[martin@dorfl dev]$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i686-linux]

[martin@dorfl dev]$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require "yaml"
=> true
irb(main):002:0> string = "hello world" * 2000
=> "hello worldhello worldhello worldhello worldhello wo...... etc"
irb(main):003:0> data = string.to_yaml
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml/rubytypes.rb:315: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i686-linux]

Aborted
[martin@dorfl dev]$

Can somebody else confirm that this is reproducable?

As I mentioned above - the document that I want to convert to/from YAML is 
large.  Is there a size limitation that I am unaware of with the current yaml 
implementation?

Cheers,
Martin

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