Bug #5773: bigdecimal comparison raises SystemStackError

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: mrkn (Kenta Murata)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0dev (2011-12-15 trunk 34056) [x86_64-darwin11.2.0]

[tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson)]

Comparing an uninitialized BigDecimal to another will raise a SysteStackError exception. For example:

BigDecimal("1") == BigDecimal.allocate

I've attached a test case that demonstrates this bug.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r34070.
Aaron, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c (Init_bigdecimal): does not follow
  allocation framework right now. [ruby-core:41710] [Bug #5773]