Bug#652674: Problem found

2012-06-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
I've added links to this bug to the BTS at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789410 and the upstream Ruby BTS at http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5780 -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Google-bait: http://www.debian.org/CD/fre

Bug#652674: Problem found

2012-05-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
We have positive news on the ruby/arm bug! Working through the problem with Ulrich (in CC) at the Linaro Connect conference, it looks like we've found the problem. Ruby will normally use setcontext/getcontext to implement its fibers. It has fallback code in cont.c for platforms where they are know