Re: [LaTeXila] Bug in Ubuntu Beta Builds?



Hello Seb,

Le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 à 02:16 +0100, Sébastien Wilmet a écrit :
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:16:41AM +0100, Matthieu Baerts (matttbe)
wrote:
> > @Sebastien, any idea? :)
> 
> I looked at the Vala code and at the C code generated, and I don't 
> understand what goes wrong.
> 
> Is the bug always reproducible? Or the bug occurs only randomly?
> 
> Is the package in the PPA compiled with the C code generated from the 
> tarball, or the Vala code is recompiled? If the C code is regenerated 
> from Vala, which valac version exactly?

This package is compiled only with the C code available in the tarball.

> So a possibility is that there is a dangling reference (the variable 
> "self" is still reachable but has been reclaimed). In this case, it's
a 
> bug in Vala. But when reading the C code, I don't see why the
variable 
> would be reclaimed… Also, with a dangling ref, the bug should occur 
> randomly, and should occur with the version compiled from the tarball 
> too.

But it's strange because we use the same C code.

> Maybe the compilation options of GCC? Which version of GCC? But the 
> chance that the problem comes from the "-O2" optimization is very
very 
> small.

Yes, maybe...

Matt

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