On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks eliot.
>
> Do you have tests that we could harvest to create a non regession database?
>

Alas not in this case.  The bug manifests itself when a cog code compaction
occurs soon after an MNU PIC has been created and the symptom is a fatal
crash.  So a) it is very difficult to reproduce and b) there would be no
neat test failure, there would be a core dump.  Yes this is useful for a
Jenkins context, but in general I think it better to test things like this
with heavy stress tests (and general community usage) rather than trying to
produce a specific test.


> Stef
>
>
> > ...in http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2495/.  These fix the
> regression introduced in r2487 in
> > introducing faster MNu processing.  The bug was the leaking up of an
> error code that was misinterpreted as
> > a valid target machine code method.  Thanks /very/ much to those of you
> who tested the 2493 & 2494 VMs.
> > With your help this bug was found quickly.  I now have reason to hope
> that these VMs will be quite stable.
> >
> >
> > Here's the readme:
> > CogVM binaries as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.127/r2495.  Fix MNU PIC creation
> not
> > to answer an error code to the interpreter.  This is the call 0x00000013
> bug.
> >
> > again thanks
> > --
> > best,
> > Eliot
> >
>
>
>


-- 
best,
Eliot

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