Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

>|Under ruby-1.8.0(from debian's sid) the bug will be always be triggered after a few
>|seconds of runtime.
>
>It does not happen on the latest CVS.  I'm not sure whether we already
>fixed it or just by coincidence.
>  
>
Negetive, I can still reproduce the problem from the latest CVS. It was 
noted gcc version may play a role here(either it's gcc bug, or gcc is 
just exposing it):

gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2/specs
Configured with: ../src/configure -v 
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr 
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info 
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared 
--with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext 
--enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug 
--enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i486-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.2 20030812 (Debian prerelease)

Idan.