[Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memory corruption

[Chris McDonough]

It would be good if someone who is experiencing random crashes could confirm
that the the new compiler package fixes their problem.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Lloyd" <brian.lloyd@zope.com>
To: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@zope.com>; <jeremy@zope.com>
Cc: "Anthony Baxter" <anthony@interlink.com.au>; "Zope Developers list"
<zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 9:35 AM
Subject: RE: [Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memory
corruption


> > Oh, ok, sorry for the misreport.  It sounds then as if we need to fix
> > whatever is causing the memory corruption that GC trips over.  I dont
> > know that we have a real good handle on what this is.
>
> I'm pretty sure we do. The stack estimation problems cause
> memory stomping, which happens to tend to be found much more
> quickly with GC enabled.
>
> Zope 2.5 b3 will contain a fixed compiler package.
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> Brian Lloyd        brian@zope.com
> Software Engineer  540.361.1716
> Zope Corporation   http://www.zope.com
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