[M3devel] Potential bug in RTAllocator.Clone, was: Fwd: Auto-discard notification

[Tony Hosking]

I just committed a fix for this.

On 27 Aug 2010, at 11:17, Olaf Wagner wrote:

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> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:39:23 +0100
> Subject: Potential bug in RTAllocator.Clone
> From: Raja Mukherji <rajamukherji at gmail.com>
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> Hi, this is my first post to the Modula-3 mailing list...
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> While using RTAllocator.Clone in a project, I kept getting errors
> related to the type of the returned object. The debugger m3gdb
> returned a TYPECODE of 0.
> I think the cause is line 84 in RTAllocator.m3 which currently reads
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> res := AllocTraced(dataSize, def.dataAlignment, thread^);
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> which doesn't seem to set the header of the clone. Changing it to
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> res := LOOPHOLE(GetTraced(def), ADDRESS);
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> seems to fix the problems, but since I'm not that familiar with the
> object representation I thought I should ask here first.
> 
> Thanks,
> Raja
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