Re: Serialization problem (fwd)

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From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Wed Nov 25 1998 - 21:48:54 EST


On Nov 25, 1998, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:

>> > It's some incompatibility between the way objects are written
>> > and the way they are read. That's as far as I got :-)

>> Strange was that, for some test cases, it would crash while reading
>> class data from the stream... :-(

> It might be beneficial to make some of the tests available to help
> whoever is going to debug that stuff.

Well, the other large testcase we had depended on Guaranį, so I'm not
sure you'd want to play with it.

I think the other problem I mentioned can be easily reproduced by
saving&reloading a non-empty HashTable. I asked Nadia if she would
try to find a simple testcase that produced that kind of behavior. I
expect to have news from her tomorrow.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil


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