On Aug 3, 2011, at 8:06 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:

> As you might know, the current druntime release contains a GC bug which 
> causes hard to track down crashes due to premature garbage collection in 
> combination with the OS X Lion ASLR, which is enabled by default on all 
> systems now. The problem is well understood, and a fix has already been 
> merged into master 
> (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/43).
> 
> Given that there are already three people who have independently hit the 
> issue (Magnus Hetland just raised the topic on D.learn again) and the elusive 
> nature of the bug, is this severe enough to warrant an emergency bugfix 
> release? Or would it be possible to put a warning on the download page, 
> suggesting to use Git master for applications deployed to Lion?

Is this fix alone sufficient for the test suite to pass on Lion?  I blew away 
my Lion partition a while back and haven't had a chance to re-create and test.

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