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Diffstat (limited to 'BUGS')
| -rw-r--r-- | BUGS | 113 |
1 files changed, 95 insertions, 18 deletions
@@ -6,6 +6,99 @@ nother to make an entry in this file, unless it was a serious bug ==> Status indicators: (-) not fixed; (*) fixed; (?) don't know what to do. ====================================================================== +Known BUGS in 1.1.1 and 1.2 +--------------------------- + +(-) arraymodule doesn't compile under Ultrix (FPROTO macro) + +(-) Linux uses GNU getopt by default which is broken + +(-) makesetup assumes CCC is the C++ compiler -- not portable + +(-) "make depend" assumes mkdep exists -- not portable + +(-) threadmodule.c leaks LOTS of memory at thread exit + +(-) tkinter seems to leave an exception around sometime which breaks +unmarshalling code objects + +(-) memory leak (namebuf) in initmodule2 + +(-) regen calls h2py which isn't defined by default + +(-) shared install in Modules still doesn't work for empty list + +(-) make libinstall (or similar) references to machdep directory but +doesn't create it + +(-) destroying all modules may destroy __builtin__ while destructors +of other modules may still need it + +(-) hash() of float values returns suspect values + +(-) sockets aren't thread safe (address of static struct returned, +some calls aren't thread safe) + +(-) Everything else that uses err_get() should probably use err_get_tb() + +(-) struct module aligns doubles wrongly when compiled with -DDEBUG on sparc + +(-) pow(int, int, long) (etc.) dumps core on Linux (and other Intel machines?) + +(-) C-level coerce() doesn't call __coerce__ when it should (and +similar for __cmp__) + +(-) DECREF can cause the interpreter to be called recursively (for +__del__ disciplines) -- so list and dict implementation calls doing +DECREF can cause recursive calls to methods of the object being +modified. Other files too. (Only partially fixed.) + +(-) HP doesn't compile out of the box (needs LIBS=-ldld or +LIBS=/usr/lib/libdld.sl) + +(-) something fishy with softspace and print_error (flushline clears +the error) + +(-) tkinter doesn't seem to see any declaration of malloc on sunos 4.1.3 + +====================================================================== +BUGS present in 1.1.1 and fixed in 1.2 +-------------------------------------- + +(*) threadmodule.c leaks 'res' in t_bootstrap + +(*) errors.c shouldn't declare strerror() on NT + +(*) DECREF can cause the interpreter to be called recursively (for +__del__ disciplines) -- so list and dict implementation calls doing +DECREF can cause recursive calls to methods of the object being +modified. Other files too. (Only partially fixed.) + +(*) tkinter dereferences NULL if timer callback raises an exception + +(*) must link with -lieee for linux + +(*) if a timer handler routine raises an exception, the interpreter +dereferences NULL + +(*) __getattr__ doesn't clear error + +(*) '%s' % a, where a is a class instance, fails + +(*) "make test" won't find freshly built dynamically loaded modules -- +should add ./Modules to TESTPATH + +(*) lshift calls __rshift__ instead of __rlshift__ + +(*) memory leak in creation of sys.builtin_module_names + +(*) Bugs in instance_dealloc(): (a) memory leak for exception +type+value; (2) should save+restore traceback as well + +(*) modsupport.c(vmkvalue): on systems where va_list is an array, the +calls to do_mkvalue and do_mktuple don't want an "&" before va. + +====================================================================== BUGS found in 1.1 and fixed in 1.1.1 ------------------------------------ @@ -39,21 +132,12 @@ max is >0 (*) sorting class instances broken if no __cmp__ defined -BUGS found in 1.1 and not yet fixed ------------------------------------ - -(-) HP doesn't compile out of the box (needs LIBS=-ldld or -LIBS=/usr/lib/libdld.sl) - -(-) something fishy with softspace and print_error (flushline clears -the error) - -(-) tkinter doesn't seem to see any declaration of malloc on sunos 4.1.3 - ====================================================================== BUGS found in 1.0.3 and fixed in 1.1 ------------------------------------ +(*) 2 specific leaks: 1 PYTHONPATH; 2 reading code from .pyc + (*) If class C doesn't define __cmp__, cmp(a,b) will return -2 and [a,b].sort() will fail @@ -66,9 +150,6 @@ involved. (*) freeze script needs major rewrite to cope with multiple extensions (Jack seems to have fixed it now -- where is it?) -(*) various memory leaks (see purify report from anthony.baxter@aaii.oz.au) -(several leaks fixed anyway :-) - (*) unwanted entries in stack trace if err_clear() clears an error that also set a stack trace @@ -158,10 +239,6 @@ end in linefeed Bugs found in 1.0.1 and not yet fixed ------------------------------------- -(?) modsupport.c(vmkvalue): on systems where va_list is an array, the -calls to do_mkvalue and do_mktuple don't want an "&" before va. -(don't know what to do about this) - (?) threads are slow on Solaris 2 (so what?) |