[chuck-users] severe ChucK v1.3.0.0 bug

[Al Matthews]

> A bug tracker and a *simple* test suite (language features and regression
> tests) would be a nice first step. Any plans on doing this?

That might be a chuck-dev complaint.

> Could you drop a note when the fix hits SVN so I can import it into my
> ChucK Git repository?

That might be obnoxious.

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On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Robin Haberkorn
<robin.haberkorn at googlemail.com> wrote:
> try that one:
>
> fun void foo(string s)
> {
>         <<< s >>>;
> }
>
> "bar" => string s;
>
> while (true)
>         s => foo;
>
> It's not only affecting string constants as I first suspected. This
> breaks a lot of my functions where one variable is passed to another
> function multiple times.
> I assume that the string value reference is released on foo() return but
> not increased when passing it to foo().
>
> Could you drop a note when the fix hits SVN so I can import it into my
> ChucK Git repository?
>
> cheers,
> Robin
>
> On 29/08/12 08:34, Ge Wang wrote:
>> Hi Robin!
>>
>> Ah yes, this is a bug that came out of our updated, slightly less dumb
>> reference counting.  Will fix and we will roll out an update soon!  Nice
>> catch!  Thanks!
>>
>> Ge!
>>
>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Robin Haberkorn wrote:
>>
>>> On 29/08/12 02:52, Robin Haberkorn wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> uncommenting the debug prints:
>>>>
>>>> rhaberkorn at nb005-lx001:~$ chuck-1.3.0.0/src/chuck --srate:44100 bug.ck
>>>> 1 :(int)
>>>> "bar" : (string)
>>>> 2 :(int)
>>>> 1 :(int)
>>>> "bar" : (string)
>>>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>>> ...
>>>
>>> this was actually using foo("bar") instead of "bar" => foo (the
>>> behaviour is a little bit different)
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