RE: Extlib.DynArray unstable

> Looks like you're using an old version of ExtLib.
> There was a temporary fix in the "idup" function of DynArray 
> which prevent this ocaml bug from happening ( there was a bug 
> in Obj.dup implementation which must have been fixed on 
> ocaml-cvs ). Maybe we could make a bug-fix release of extlib 
> since several patches have been applied ?

I downloaded a tarball from sourceforge called

extlib-1.3.tgz

Is this old?  I don't see a newer one posted.

Or are you saying I need to download ocaml from CVS?  I have their
3.08.1 tarball.


Jeff




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolas Cannasse [mailto:warplayer@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 11:21 AM
> To: HENRIKSON, JEFFREY
> Subject: Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Extlib.DynArray unstable
> 
> 
> Looks like you're using an old version of ExtLib.
> There was a temporary fix in the "idup" function of DynArray 
> which prevent this ocaml bug from happening ( there was a bug 
> in Obj.dup implementation which must have been fixed on 
> ocaml-cvs ). Maybe we could make a bug-fix release of extlib 
> since several patches have been applied ?
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "HENRIKSON, JEFFREY" <JEFHEN@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ocaml-lib-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 7:55 PM
> Subject: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Extlib.DynArray unstable
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I find DynArray very unstable on my machine, and will have to 
> revert my code back to Markus Mottl's Res library for the time being.
> 
> Just calling (of_array [||]) several times will cause a segfault on my
> machine:
> 
>         Objective Caml version 3.08.1
> 
> # # #directory "+site-lib/extlib";;
> # #load "extLib.cma";;
> # open ExtLib;;
> # DynArray.of_array [||];;
> - : '_a DynArray.t = <abstr>
> # DynArray.of_array [||];;
> - : '_a DynArray.t = <abstr>
> # DynArray.of_array [||];;
> - : '_a DynArray.t = <abstr>
> # DynArray.of_array [||];;
> - : '_a DynArray.t = <abstr>
> # DynArray.of_array [||];;
> 
> Process caml-toplevel segmentation fault
> 
> It's not completely deterministic.  It can require varying 
> number of calls to get the segfault but usually less than 10. 
>  This test was performed on Linux.  I can provide more 
> details about the configuration if you have trouble 
> reproducing the problem.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Jeff Henrikson
> 
> 


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