[Vm-dev] Re: SegmentationFault in with OmniBrowser

[Lukas Renggli]

> > has a very good chance to trigger such problems. And indeed: Once you do
> > this you get an error saying that instances of OBModalFilter aren't
> > indexable which is raised during simulating OBModalFilter>>selection:.
> > Looking at the bytecodes (or the decompile) of that method shows that
> > there is indeed a major problem, plus in a couple of other methods
> > (noteParent:child: for example).
>
>
> Not that easy to me. I did not understand a word of what you explained.

The compiled method accesses a non-existing instance-variable.

> > How it got into this state is a great question, though. Somewhere,
> > somehow your system is badly screwed up. Given that you have some fairly
> > experimental Monticello changes in there I think it's a fair guess to
> > assume that those might be causing the problem.
>
> You should not assume I have a special Monticello version, it's not
> the case. I have the Monticello included in 3.10 (maybe this one is
> experimental, I don't know).

This probably has to do with the recent changes of Monticello that
somehow changes the way how code is loaded and changes the
change-notification mechanism. It works in 3.9.

Lukas

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