[opam-devel] worrying segfault in ocaml-gettext on 4.02

Jeremy Yallop yallop at gmail.com
Fri Aug 29 12:27:59 BST 2014


Indeed: the CHANGELOG has the following for 0.3.5:

v 0.3.5 (Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:31:41 +0200):
  * Always use format_of_string to not segfault with OCaml 4.02.

(the segfault was in 0.3.4)


On 29 August 2014 12:19, Mark Shinwell <mshinwell at janestreet.com> wrote:
> Jeremie took one look at this and said it's probably something to do
> with formats...
>
> Mark
>
> On 29 August 2014 12:17, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org> wrote:
>> There's a reproducible segfault in 4.02 only for gettext
>> https://github.com/ocaml/opam-bulk-logs/blob/master/20140829/roo/4.02.0/raw/gettext#L2351
>>
>> Anyone got time to triage this?  I'm out for a few hours so cant immediately.  Looks like gettext may be double linking unix.cma, which can't be healthy.
>>
>> -anil
>>
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