Re: Cairo 0.91 (beta)

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 10:11 +0400, Alexey Tourbin wrote:
>
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > [Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 14787)]
> > 0xb7c0b01d in read_func_marshaller (closure=0x81ba1d0, data=0x81bac58 "\211PNG\r\n\032\n",
> length=8) at CairoSurface.xs:233
> > 233                     memcpy (data, retval, n_a);
> > (gdb) l
> > 228                     status = SvCairoStatus (ERRSV);
> > 229             } else {
> > 230                     STRLEN n_a;
> > 231                     char *retval;
> > 232                     retval = POPpx;
> > 233                     memcpy (data, retval, n_a);
> > 234             }
> > 235     
> > 236             PUTBACK;
> > 237             FREETMPS;
> > (gdb) p n_a
> > $1 = 136029216
> > (gdb) 
>
> Ouch.  Looks like POPpx changed from perl 5.8.7 to 5.8.8.  With 5.8.7,
> everything works as expected for me.  `perldoc perlapi´ says
>
>   POPpx   Pops a string off the stack.  Requires a variable STRLEN n_a in
>           scope.
>
> In my <perl>/CORE/pp.h, POPpx is defined to call SvPVx which, in sv.h,
> uses SvPV which uses SvPV_flags which finally sets n_a to SvCUR(sv).
> Apparently this can't be relied upon, so I'll look into using just POPs
> and sv_len.
>
> -- 
> Thanks for the report,
> -Torsten
>
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Before/(along with) making a release, could you, developers, please
publish regression tests logs with versions of all the tools involved ?

That is, is there an orderly (from the QA point of view) release
procedure ?

--Sergei.

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