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#6828 Up↑ /3 Down↓ [Report] 2013-03-07 17:46 GMT
<mjrosenb> so i'm trying to reproduce a regression
<mjrosenb> and the next step seems to require a live goat sacrifice
<mjrosenb> can I expense that?
<sfink> mjrosenb: only if you do it on a cloudless night under a full moon, which can easily make you slip an entire release cycle while you're waiting
<mjrosenb> sfink: would it be any easier with a chicken?
<jesup> mjrosenb: chickens are probably easier to expense
<sfink> mjrosenb: well, then you have to find one with a prime number of spots, and it's such a judgement call whether something is one spot or two
<mjrosenb> sfink: i'll just buy a half dozen of them, and sacrifice them all
<mjrosenb> one of them is bound to have a prime number of spots. -
#5877 Up↑ /6 Down↓ [Report] 2011-07-18 17:52 GMT
<jimb> So I'm having trouble writing a test that catches a GC bug I know is present --- something should be held alive but it's not --- because the conservative scanner is holding it live anyway. I even tried writing a function to get the stack pointer and memset the area below the stack at strategic points (not that that would pass review) to clear out the stray reference, but the conservative scanner just found another reference.
<jimb> This is total baloney.
<khuey> the stack scanner knows all
<khuey> you cannot deceive it
<jimb> khuey: The conservative scanner is the Oracle of Delphi, a mumbling religieuse driven to dementia by poisonous volcanic fumes, whose words are lept upon as holy writ by a credulous garbage collector.
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#5025 Up↑ /7 Down↓ [Report] 2010-03-08 18:40 GMT
<mak> bsmedberg: is Bug 550602 ready? i just hit it and can't build :\
<firebot> Check-in: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e6ef0bd60593 - Benjamin Smedberg - Bug 550602 - pymake broken with ctypes changes, override SHELL, r=ted
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