From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2004-05-08T08:06:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Installer for Windows: use of Win32OLE bug causes crash

On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 06:53:54AM +0900, Shashank Date wrote:
> Thanks for reporting this with an example ... we (the Ruby-Installer team)
> were
> unable to test this before putting out the rc2 for want of such an example.
 
I have been drilling down into this problem most of the afternoon, and I have
been stripping diskspace.rb to where a _source_ change of removing a specific
line causes an error. So it looks like some kind of memory corruption problem
during the lexing/parsing phase? I'll dig further.

> I do not know if we will able to fix it, but at least we will be able to
> test it better.

Thanks. Please let me know if you can repro this problem. I am on Win2K3
Server.

Cheers,
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