Strange I encountered the bug on Ubuntu 14.04 instead of 12.04 instead
of the other way around..  Actually not, Ubuntu seems to be getting
worse in some ways..

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 4:38 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> I should double check to be sure, but I think this was a bug in the run
> time libraries of the operating system, as opposed to something in the VM
> or the image. I can't say I like the idea of putting a kludge into the
> image to work around a bug in Ubuntu, although it might be worthwhile in
> this case just to prevent new users from having a bad experience.
>
> Come to think of it, we should be able to write a unit test that would
> detect this problem when running Squeak on a buggy OS.
>
> Dave
>
>> Okay, I was just getting this again in our release image.  Strange --
>> it happens on one laptop but not the other..!  The suggested patch
>> seemed to work for me, don't we need to push this fix to trunk and
>> squeak45?
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>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:06 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Ah, right, thank you! I do recall the discussion now that you mention
>>> it.
>>> I use VMs compiled on my own machine, which happens to be a new Ubuntu
>>> system at the moment. It probably has the buggy gcc library.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>> Dave
>>>
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>>>> WriteStream&gt;&gt;nextChunkPut
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>>>> add a self flush at the end will fix it.
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>>>> Discussion several months ago fingered the gcc 4 compiler so something.
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>>>> cheers.
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>>>> tty
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>>>> ---- On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 16:52:54 -0700 David T.
>>>> Lewis&lt;lewis at mail.msen.com&gt; wrote ----
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>>>> Create a new class, attempt to edit the class comment ==&gt; Error:
>>>> RemoteString past end of file
>>>>
>>>> Surely I cannot be the first person to have edited a class comment in
>>>> the
>>>> last month or so ... I hope.
>>>>
>>>> Dave
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