Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] segfault in GC when creating a DynArray of size zero

[skaller <sk...@us...>]

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 09:42, Janne Hellsten wrote:
> The following test case in the testing suite causes a segfault in 
> garbage collection:
> 
> --cut--
> (* NOTE this is a copy of Skaller's trivial DynArray test.  Apparently
>     he hit the nail on the head with the first try, 

Nope -- someone else reported this problem, I just
coded it into a test.

>open DynArray
> 
> let test_triv () =
>    let a = make 0 in (* ZERO here causes a segfault later in GC??? *)
>    let b = copy a in
>    assert (length a == 0);
>    assert (length b == 0);
>    Gc.major ()
> --cut--

Hmm. If we had unit test level control in the test
harness, we could add/not add Gc.major() after every
test.

> $ ./mktest --author=jh --module=DynArray
> $ ./extlib_test


Ah, you added --module :)

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