So, I was hacking on Ruport at work tonight.
And irb broke my heart:
http://www.newhavenrubyists.org/blogs/tiberius/?p=6
Anyone have an idea what the hell heart:0 is?
Probably some garbage like \342\231\245 that got interpreted as a UTF-8 string.
$ cat heart.rb
def 
(name)
puts "I you, #{name}!"
end
ARGV.shift
$ ruby -Ku heart.rb Ruby
I you, Ruby!
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On Nov 1, 2005, at 7:53 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:
So, I was hacking on Ruport at work tonight.
And irb broke my heart:
http://www.newhavenrubyists.org/blogs/tiberius/?p=6Anyone have an idea what the hell heart:0 is?
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Quoting Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com>:
So, I was hacking on Ruport at work tonight.
And irb broke my heart:
http://www.newhavenrubyists.org/blogs/tiberius/?p=6Anyone have an idea what the hell heart:0 is?
In the character set your DOS window is using, heart is 0x03.
I'm guessing you're seeing a pointer into random/uninitialized
memory (where the first two bytes happen to be 0x03 0x00) being
used for a filename in the backtrace somehow. In C programs, such
things are usually signs of badness. Could be a premature free(),
could be a garbage pointer, could be a missed initialization.
Probably a Ruby bug.
0x01,
-mental
Yea, seen that one before 
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2005/11/2, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com>:
So, I was hacking on Ruport at work tonight.
And irb broke my heart:
http://www.newhavenrubyists.org/blogs/tiberius/?p=6Anyone have an idea what the hell heart:0 is?
Gregory Brown wrote:
Anyone have an idea what the hell heart:0 is?
Well, thank's all for your insight. The moral of the story is that one
should never use cmd.exe 
Hope that doesn't start a flamewar.