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Bug #3143

Updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans) over 4 years ago

=begin 
  
  While playing around with the possibility of a simpler AOP library for ruby than Aquarium (and without using ParseTree), I've found a very strange segmentation fault. The attached code file shows it happing. As it is very exploratory code, it is filled with some very unusual meta-programming that, when cleaned up with proper modularization, prevent the bug from happening. 
 
  What is weird is that commenting a few lines of the code change the segmentation fault into the following error: 
 
  meta_define_inline_blockeasy_seg_fault.rb:46:in `new': stack level too deep (SystemStackError) 
 
  The commented lines are marked in the file, but I repeate them for completeness sake: 
      ## Commenting the following two lines the seg fault turn into    `new': stack level too deep 
      regex = /#<Module\:0x(\w+)/ 
      uniquename = regex.match(to_s)[1] 
      ## 
 
  Not a big issue, as the real library will not open Class and redefine new, but I found interestnig. And worried, since seg faults can sometimes be exploited into bigger issues. 
 
 =end 
 

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