[M3devel] pickle bug..solved?.. not supposed to work?

[Jay K]

I seem to have quite a knack for placing periods

in column 76 by accident. This was truncated right at the end.

 

 - Jay


 
> From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:34:21 +0000
> Subject: [M3devel] pickle bug..solved?.. not supposed to work?
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> https://projects.elego.de/cm3/ticket/1068
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> I've only spent a few minutes here.
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> Trying to find the relative code and such.
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> The code is here:
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> C:\dev2\cm3.2\m3-comm\netobj\tests\perf\src
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> I found it by looking near the top of the stack in
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> the bug report -- NetObjTest.m3 -- and
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> then dir /s/b NetObjTest.m3.
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> or find . | grep NetObjTest.m3$ on Unix.
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> It appears that Pickle v1 and v2 are both
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> There is INTERFACE Pickle and INTERFACE Pickle2.
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> It appears netobj can use either.
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> If you look at the stack in the bug, there is a lot of "v1" stuff.
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> We provide Quake functions:
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> readonly proc netobjv1(intf, type) is
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> end
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> readonly proc Netobjv1(intf, type) is
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> end
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> readonly proc netobjv2(intf, type) is
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> end
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> readonly proc netobj(intf, type) is
> netobjv1(intf, type)
> end
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> v1 pickles cannot cross endian/wordsize boundaries.
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> I think the bug is not so much in the pickle code, nor in the netobj code,
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> but in the test code, or the running of it.
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> Tests involving v1 won't work crossing endian/wordsize boundaries.
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> V1 tests probably should still run, and maybe detect the mismatch
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> and just claim success?
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> And then v2 should get better coverage?
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> Any more bugs then?
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> I was procrastinating on this because I've never done anything with pickles
 		 	   		  
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