Re: [bug-gettext] Silent crash when processing some Scheme's bytevectors

[Florent.Angly]

Fantastic, thank you Bruno.
Best,
Florent

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Bruno Haible [mailto:address@hidden
Gesendet: Montag, 14. Mai 2018 21:05
An: address@hidden
Cc: Angly, Florent CH/BRN
Betreff: [EXT] Re: [bug-gettext] Silent crash when processing some Scheme's 
bytevectors

Hi,

Florent Angly wrote:
> inputFile contains the paths to numerous Scheme source files and the
> xgettext command seems to run fine (no errors reported), but the
> expected pot file is not generated. When inspecting the exit code of
> xgettext, I get the value 127, confirming an abnormal exit. I managed
> to narrow the issue to a single source file that contains SRFI-4/R7RS 
> bytevector statements like: '#u8(0 10 5) .
> Uncommenting these statements with a ';' made the failure disappear.

Thanks for reporting it and for having nailed it down to this particular syntax.
There is indeed a memory management bug here.

> Note that the failure is not systematic. It seems to depend on the position 
> of '#u8(). For example, this works:
>     #(0 10 5)
>    '#(0 10 5)
>     #u8(0 10 5)
>    '#u8(0 10 5)
>     #vu8(0 10 5)
>    '#vu8(0 10 5)

Thanks for mentioning this #vu8 syntax. I wasn't aware of it.

The bug will be fixed, and proper support for #vu8 etc. added in the next 
release.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__git.savannah.gnu.org_gitweb_-3Fp-3Dgettext.git-3Ba-3Dcommitdiff-3Bh-3D1e07b4420093afa122a3c42e4c531d2633e5fae1&d=DwICAg&c=iYwH3J27U_MBSsOvqcb8y8L0YvDEWvwF8fJyvC56xZM&r=XQAZT8tjM4yt0E8b2QB3ea70dkXMP8E_HaBGT9oG30A&m=UhTvJZJfbiwVGkckVGWIh2OmZrauRt9Sjj7N7A-roWk&s=u_ybn3OCE5sctWYicHCeXPnzLotjgl8BnPxye_RHLNo&e=

Bruno


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