From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2004-05-08T08:48:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Installer for Windows: use of Win32OLE bug causes crash

On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 08:06:58AM +0900, Jos Backus wrote:
> 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.

Oops, I forgot to mention that the specific line I'm removing is EMPTY. And I
can reproduce this in different parts of the source file. It's definitely
vertical whitespace-related. Oddest bug I've seen in a while.

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