[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#592751: Broken on hppa; programs abort with malloc assertion failure

[Yavor Doganov]

dann frazier wrote:
> Same thing:

OK.  Another try with 1.20.0 this time?
(http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20100524T154820Z/pool/main/g/gnustep-base/gnustep-base_1.20.0-1.dsc)

Upstream thinks this is either a GCC/libobjc issue exposed by the new
-base code, or a serious problem in gnustep-base itself.

As I can't reproduce the nefarious behavior on gcc61.fsffrance.org
with a manually built GCC 4.4.4 from pristine source, I'm now building
a new gcc with Debian patches.

If I still can't reproduce, and 1.20.0 fails on Debian machines in the
same way (which I suspect so), I'm afraid you or someone else from the
hppa folks gotta take the hard road of bisecting...

Upstream said:

| My only new idea on how to proceed is to try a bisection of the code
| changes since 1.19.3. You should start of by testing 1.20.0 and then
| use SVN versions of the code in between.
|
| We have too much that changed since 1.19.3 to tell otherwise. The
| whole thread and lock handling was completely rewritten, the
| interaction with the Objective-C runtime was reimplemented, so were
| NSInvocation and NSNumber. We enabled 64 bit NSInteger support and so
| much more.