[Python-Dev] Stop the presses! (original) (raw)

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Fri, 11 Aug 2000 22:50:17 -0400

The bad news: I've found another reproducible core-dump bug in Python-2.0 under Linux. Actually I found it in 1.5.2 while making some changes to CML2, and just verified that the CVS snapshot of Python 2.0 bombs identically.

The bad news II: it really seems to be in the Python core, not one of the extensions like Tkinter. My curses and Tk front ends both segfault in the same place, the guard of an innocuous-looking if statement.

The good news: the patch to go from code-that-runs to code-that-bombs is pretty small and clean. I suspect anybody who really knows the ceval internals will be able to use it to nail this bug fairly quickly.

Damn, seems like I found the core dump in Pickle just yesterday. This is getting to be a habit I don't enjoy much :-(.

I'm putting together a demonstration package now. Stay tuned; I'll ship it tonight.

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