[erlang-bugs] calling module_info() on a R9C2 beam causes erlang R12B4 to segfault

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

2008/10/8 martin kjellin <martin.kjellin@REDACTED>

> Hello
>
> I've attached segfault.beam, compiled with R9C2, that when loaded into a
> R12B4 system causes erlang to segfault when segfault:module_info() is
> called. Calling module_info() on the same beam works in R11B5 (and R9C2).
> Attached is also the source code (it's not a very complicated module...) but
> it's not a straighforward map between the erl- and beam-file as there's a
> parse transform involved.
>

Thanks!

The problem is that the implementation of module_info/0,1 was implemented in
a different way in R9C and earlier - using special instructions inserted by
the loader. Those instructions no longer work reliably in R12B due to the
new garbage-collection algorithm needed to support the constant pools.

Since R12B can only load trivial R9C modules anyway, R12B-5 will refuse to
load modules compiled by R9C or earlier.

/Bjorn
-- 
Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
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