On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 18:46:22 UTC, Gerry Weaver wrote:
On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 18:03:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 07:51:59PM +0200, Gerry Weaver wrote:
On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 17:36:10 UTC, Ali Çehreli
wrote:
[...]
>That is the most plausible reason so far: The OP has an
>empty file in
>the current directory but the hello.d that is being edited
>in Emacs
>is elsewhere. :)
>
>Ali
Hi,
I have been looking into this. I'm afraid it isn't that
simple. I
just created the file with vi in the same directory I was
trying to
compile it in. I can cat it etc., so I know the text is
there. I
have even reproduced the issue on a different partition etc..
I'm
starting to think that some other package that is installed
on this
particular system may be the source of the problem. I can't
reproduce the issue on another install of the same OS,
version,
etc.. I went ahead and installed the .deb package on the new
system
and it still works.
[...]
Yeah, it seems to be a very system-specific problem. I'd like
to get to
bottom of it if I could, as it piques my curiosity (plus it
would be
nice to prevent somebody else from running into the same
problem in the
future), but then I don't really want to waste your time
hunting down an
obscure problem if you already have a working dmd by some
other means.
T
Hi,
It just occurred to me that I've seen this type of file issue
before. If memory serves, it was related to the attempt to load
a 64bit lib on a 32bit system. It was an odd problem, because
it didn't fail in the way one would expect. The process in that
case was reading garbage from memory. I don't get how it could
be reading nothing though. Anyway, I'm going to look into this
possibility. I found some notes that I made during that time
and it does have a similar feel to it. I'll let y'all know what
I find.
Thanks,
-G
Hmm.. It doesn't seem likely that these problems are related. The
issue I remembered involved a series of program errors that
started with the improper handling of a dlopen. It is almost
impossible that dmd could be reproducing this situation.
Thanks,
-G
