From: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: rixed@happyleptic.org, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Beta release of OCaml 4.00.0
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 19:19:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPFanBF8AmSKwhqTs5P5ZtJs4Wd2yyQpuYuLtdVtW0eK9mNG0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120609170545.GB11065@annexia.org>
This is related to a segfault in Scanf that was discovered (by
Jianzhou Zhao, on this list) a few months ago :
http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5380 . The compability break
was also reported previously on mantis :
http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5605
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 07:09:58AM +0200, rixed@happyleptic.org wrote:
>> > The release of OCaml version 4.00.0 is approaching. We have
>> > created a beta version for your testing pleasure. Please
>> > download the sources, compile, install, and test your favourite
>> > software with it. Then let me know what happened, one way or
>> > the other.
>>
>> The first failure I got is from oUnit setup.ml which attempt to
>> scanf "%S %S@\n", but using the @ after a %S (not %s) does not
>> work the same as in 3.12.1 : it looks for a '@' instead of interpreting
>> it as a scanning indication.
>> The manual says that scanning indications are for %s and %[range],
>> so it seams setup.ml is to blame, though.
>
> I just discovered the same problem. Unfortunately ounit is a build
> requirement for many OCaml packages, so this blocks a large part of
> the rebuild.
>
> Is this an OCaml bug, or just a change in functionality? Has a Mantis
> report been filed?
>
> Rich.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-09 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-06 9:50 Damien Doligez
2012-06-06 12:26 ` rixed
2012-06-06 20:52 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-06-07 21:30 ` rixed
2012-06-08 4:55 ` rixed
2012-06-08 7:20 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-06-08 8:11 ` Gaius Hammond
2012-06-08 9:02 ` rixed
2012-06-08 9:16 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2012-06-08 9:31 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2012-06-08 10:55 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-06-08 11:37 ` rixed
2012-06-08 12:07 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-06-06 13:04 ` Erkki Seppala
2012-06-06 15:31 ` Jianzhou Zhao
2012-06-09 5:09 ` rixed
2012-06-09 17:05 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-06-09 17:19 ` Gabriel Scherer [this message]
2012-06-09 19:34 ` Török Edwin
2012-06-09 21:19 ` Philippe Veber
2012-06-11 12:05 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-06-13 9:23 ` Stéphane Glondu
[not found] <CF417415-5898-4CD3-AB44-BF01F37C5831@inria.fr>
2012-06-06 13:30 ` Damien Doligez
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