Re: [bug-gettext] Silent crash when processing some Scheme's bytevectors

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Florent Angly wrote:
> inputFile contains the paths to numerous Scheme source files and the xgettext
> command seems to run fine (no errors reported), but the expected pot file is
> not generated. When inspecting the exit code of xgettext, I get the value 127,
> confirming an abnormal exit. I managed to narrow the issue to a single source
> file that contains SRFI-4/R7RS bytevector statements like: '#u8(0 10 5) .
> Uncommenting these statements with a ';' made the failure disappear.

Thanks for reporting it and for having nailed it down to this particular syntax.
There is indeed a memory management bug here.

> Note that the failure is not systematic. It seems to depend on the position 
> of '#u8(). For example, this works:
>     #(0 10 5)
>    '#(0 10 5)
>     #u8(0 10 5)
>    '#u8(0 10 5)
>     #vu8(0 10 5)
>    '#vu8(0 10 5)

Thanks for mentioning this #vu8 syntax. I wasn't aware of it.

The bug will be fixed, and proper support for #vu8 etc. added in the next
release.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=1e07b4420093afa122a3c42e4c531d2633e5fae1

Bruno