Re: Poniedate #43

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:25:41PM +0000, Arthur Bergman wrote:
> >>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?
> >
> 
> No go really, the amount of code that executes because the creation of 
> the array and where it goes wrong is minimal in pad.c, the problem is 
> of course that pads are created so many times I haven't nailed down yet 
> the condition that makes the code fail.  But I am working on it :)

I'm probably teaching my grandmopther to suck eggs here, but...

You do know that a a pad consists of an array-of-arrays, rather than the
usual array-of-refs-to-arrays? And that the outer array isn't AvREAL, and
so doesn't do ref-couning?

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