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

Anil Madhavapeddy anil at recoil.org
Fri Aug 29 15:07:09 BST 2014


Thanks for confirming the fix -- I just wanted to make sure this wasn't a 4.02 release blocker.

Now in OPAM in https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/2545

-anil

On 29 Aug 2014, at 15:01, Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain+ocaml at le-gall.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> 2014-08-29 13:28 GMT+02:00 Mark Shinwell <mshinwell at janestreet.com>:
> The problem is the "if true then Obj.magic ..." line.  Deleting this
> seems to make it work, which I assume is the fix in 0.3.5.
> 
> 
> Yes.
>  
> Mark
> 
> On 29 August 2014 12:27, Jeremy Yallop <yallop at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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