Dan's recent patch to io/io_buf.c seems to have resolved this particular
issue. Thanks, Dan!
> [coke - Sun Sep 19 00:48:26 2004]:
>
> Just committed some patches to languages/tcl to make it start passing
> all tests again.
>
> However, one of my patches was to force the tests to /always/ run with
> -G. I was seeing several failures which go away when I disable GC.
>
> For example, after building tcl, if you (in the root directory), do:
>
> % cat foo.tcl
> set a 20
> while {$a} {
> incr a -1
> if {$a < 10} { break }
> }
> puts $a
> % ./parrot languages/tcl/tcl.pbc foo.tcl
> can't read "": no such variable% ./parrot -G languages/tcl/tcl.pbc
> foo.tcl
> 9
>
> So, something's borked in garbage collection again. I'm on OS X
> 10.3.5, if that matters.
>
>
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