Bug #13223
Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) almost 8 years ago
The program below will crash with a segv: ~~~ruby ~~~ File.const_set :Separator, "hello" File.const_set :SEPARATOR, "hello" GC.start File.join "hello", "world" ~~~ This is because the separator object is referenced from a global variable and setting the constants allows the object to be GC'd and the global will go bad. I've attached a patch that contains a test to demonstrate the problem along with a fix.