[pypy-dev] Fw: Crash!

[Samuele Pedroni]

Ben.Young at risk.sungard.com wrote:
> Sorry about replying to myself, but I must be going blind as the crash is 
> still being caused by an exception being thrown. Weird that the tests 
> don't pick this up!
> 

the fact is that we cannot reproduce these segfaults, we are not getting 
them. And there was no recent change that is likely candidate to cause 
this. So we are a bit in the dark here.

Could at least tell us you exact configuration. What compiler, 
optimisations, whether you are using Boehm or refcounting, using 
-t-lowmem or not?


> Cheers,
> Ben 
> 
> 
> pypy-dev-bounces at codespeak.net wrote on 23/09/2005 13:05:13:
> 
> 
>>Further to my previous mail, current check seems to crash much more 
> 
> often 
> 
>>now:
>>
>>$ ./pypy-c.exe
>>debug: entry point starting
>>debug:  argv -> c:\Documents and 
>>Settings\YoungB\dist\pypy\translator\goal\pypy-c.exe
>>debug: importing code
>>debug: calling code.interact()
>>Python 2.4.1 (pypy 0.7.1 build) on win32
>>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>(InteractiveConsole)
>>
>>>>>>import test
>>>>>>test.rpython.main(100)
>>
>>-> Segfault
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Ben
>>
>>----- Forwarded by Ben Young/Infinity on 23/09/2005 13:05 -----
>>
>>Ben Young/Infinity wrote on 22/09/2005 12:47:14:
>>
>>
>>>Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>>Current checkout, compiled pypy (windows as usual):
>>>
>>>$ ./pypy-c.exe
>>>debug: entry point starting
>>>debug:  argv -> c:\Documents and 
>>>Settings\YoungB\dist\pypy\translator\goal\pypy-c.exe
>>>debug: importing code
>>>debug: calling code.interact()
>>>Python 2.4.1 (pypy 0.7.1 build) on win32
>>>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>(InteractiveConsole)
>>>
>>>>>>>fe
>>>
>>>-> Segfault
>>>
>>>Appears to be a problem throwing exceptions.
>>>
>>>On another point, I notice that when lists of pointers are resized 
>>>lots of incref/decrefs happen when all that really needs to happen 
>>>is a move operation (or even a memcpy of the whole block)? Also, 
>>>could all lists of pointers share the same c representation, with 
>>>casts from void*?
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Ben
>>
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