Re: [perl #128831] t/spec/S16-io/eof.t is unportably assuming that /proc/1/comm exists

2016-08-03 Thread Nicholas Clark via RT
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 03:15:49PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Nicholas Clark > wrote: > > > I don't know what file would be safer. Maybe mem? > > > None of them. There's no guarantee that /proc exists (non-SVR4 commercial > Unixes), or that it is in any way

[perl #112288] [BUG] Non-deducible sequence ending in a Whatever star fails to give an error in Rakudo

2012-04-09 Thread Nicholas Clark via RT
On Thu Apr 05 14:56:03 2012, pmichaud wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 01:46:53PM -0700, Carl Mäsak wrote: > > r: say ~(1, 2, 6 ... *)[10] > > rakudo 4373f0: OUTPUT«␤» > > eeks > > no, that particular thing isn't in RT > > * masak submits rakudobug > > For the moment, I'm going to argue Rakudo

Re: [perl #32137] stack walking failing to detect pointer in local variable on x86 Linux

2004-10-26 Thread Nicholas Clark via RT
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:21:18PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > > >The for loop inside trace_mem_block steps right over it. This if fails: > > > >/* Do a quick approximate range check by bit-masking */ > >if ((ptr & mask) == prefix || !prefix) { > > Argh

Re: [perl #32137] stack walking failing to detect pointer in local variable on x86 Linux

2004-10-26 Thread Nicholas Clark via RT
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:44:35AM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have evidence that DOD runs can miss noticing local variable pointers to > > live objects on x86 Linux. This is happening while running ponie, but > > the problem is during a single