Bug #5296: Incompatability with DateTime#strptime Segmentation Fault when parsing string

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 1.9.3-preview

[diebels727 (Diebels Alternative)]

Loading development environment (Rails 3.0.10)
:001 > DateTime.strptime
=> Mon, 01 Jan -4712 00:00:00 +0000
:002 > DateTime.strptime(nil)
TypeError: can't convert nil into String
:003 > DateTime.strptime(nil,"%m/%d/%Y")
TypeError: can't convert nil into String
:004 > DateTime.strptime("df","%m/%d/%Y")
(irb):4: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-07-31 revision 32789) [i686-linux]

-- Control frame information -----------------------------------------------
c:0029 p:---- s:-305020823 b:0105 l:000104 d:000104 CFUNC :strptime

Under 1.9.2:

ruby-1.9.2-p290 :003 > DateTime.strptime("df","%m/%d/%Y")
ArgumentError: invalid date

[normalperson (Eric Wong)]

Diebels Alternative [e-mail] wrote:

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5296

:004 > DateTime.strptime("df","%m/%d/%Y")
(irb):4: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-07-31 revision 32789) [i686-linux]

This is fixed in the ruby_1_9_3 branch (r32956) and will be in the next
1.9.3 release/pre-release.

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed