Re: Poniedate #43

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:47:42PM +0000, Arthur Bergman wrote:
> So, today was supposed to be a big release day, and it was for the 
> parrot guys, but it isn't for me! After working hard on tracking down 
> memory corruption problems over the weekend, I still fail at my 
> objective.
> 
> Status is pretty good, the current ponie will use hashes and arrays and 
> lvalues hidden in PMCs, and it will pass over 80% of miniperl tests. 

Cool.

> However there seems to be some random memory corruption happening with 
> arrays when they are being resized after something has happened to 
> them. AvARRAY ends up pointing directly into an parrot managed arena.

Run under gdb with watchpoint on the AvARRAY?

> The annoying thing is that most test pass, but a random selection of 
> things fail, and they fail int he pad code because of the array issue, 
> but no array tests fail, meaning there is most likely a lack of tests 
> for how array resizing works.

Would more eyes/contributors help?

You're carrying a big burden pretty much by yourself. Some investment in
building a community might reap good rewards for all.

Tim.