From: Christoph Rippel <crippel@...>
Date: 2001-01-27T12:40:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9974] Windows bugs

Running the following snippet

m = 100000
# won't crash if set to 1000
x = Array.new m
x.collect! { |i|  rand(m).floor }

def nil.succ; 1 end
def useless; end
# won't crash if you comment
# out the previous line
mx={}
x.each \
{ |i|   mx[i] = mx[i].succ }
# won't crash if you replace this with
# { |i|   mx[i] = 1 }

either crashes or hangs on cygwin and mingw32 W2K. I have 
seen variations of this bug for all rubys versions 1.6.(0.1.2).
This goes away with the patch for the new gc-scheme but I 
find this bug pretty weird.

Christoph