Re: Compiling elspy on Debian unstable

"A.M. Kuchling" <[email protected]> Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:14:39 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.mail.elspy.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:33:42PM -0500, Greg Ward wrote:
> Hmmm.  Are you using the latest CVS elspy?  There was an eye-poppingly
> stupid bug in elspy 0.1.1 (uninitialized variable) that went unnoticed
> for a long time, but then jumped out at me with a coredump when I built
> on a new system.  I posted a patch here, but didn't release a new

Bingo; thanks, Greg!  Applying the patch fixes the problem.  I have no
explanation for why the code didn't also dump core under GDB; perhaps GDB
fills the stack with zeros or something?  Getting a 0.1.2 release out before
PyCon would probably be a good idea.

--amk