Comment 4 for bug 484756

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Bryan McLellan (btm) wrote : Re: ruby garbage collector segfaults under certain conditions

tested on ec2:

on lenny / ruby1.8=1.8.7.72-3lenny1 - the above test segfaults, but the Time test upstream works
on squeeze / ruby1.8=1.8.7.174-2 - the above test passes, but the Time test upstream segfaults

domU-12-31-39-04-26-23:~# ruby -e 't1 = t2 = Time.now ; while t1.sec == t2.sec do t2 = Time.now end'
-e:1: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i486-linux]

Aborted
domU-12-31-39-04-26-23:~# apt-cache policy ruby1.8 | grep Installed
  Installed: 1.8.7.174-2
domU-12-31-39-04-26-23:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (squeeze)
Release: testing
Codename: squeeze