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Re: EU 3.0.1 -- there's probably a bug in there somewhere

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Feb 02, 2007
• 674 views

Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> Matt Lewis wrote:
> > Here's some simpler code that causes a crash.
> Confirmed here too, on 3.0.0 but not 2.4, 2.5, or cb-3.0.1.
> > However, after rebuilding from source, I wasn't getting the crash
> No way to know if a source mod fixes it then...
> 
> I had a quick hack and it appears to be crashing on my system in routine
> restore_privates,
> in the code:
> 
>         // restore the current task's private data (will always be there)
> 
>         block = load_private_block(this_routine, current_task);
> 
>         // private vars
>         sym = this_routine->next;
>         while (sym != NULL && sym->scope <= S_PRIVATE) {
>             sym->obj = *block++;
>             sym = sym->next;
>         }
> 
> it crashes on the sym->obj = *block statement. A chunk of heap ends at
> #004D5FFF
> and when it crashes block is #004D6000. sym is correctly pointing at the
> parameter
> r. I have not studied load/save_private_block, but that is where my suspicions
> would lie. A random thought I had is that if it were saving and loading
> everything
> out-by-one, it might well appear to work fine in 99.9% of cases. Or maybe not.

Thanks to everyone for helping pin this down.
I'll be able to look at this later today (in a few hours).
As you sugggest, it could be that I'm allocating slightly less memory 
than I need in some cases. That would cause occasional crashes
that might go away with just a trivial change in the user's program.

Thanks,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com