February 2024 - ruby-core - ml.ruby-lang.org

[ruby-core:116117] [Ruby master Misc#20170] Drop support for GCC < 11
by kddnewton (Kevin Newton) 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Issue #20170 has been reported by kddnewton (Kevin Newton). ---------------------------------------- Misc #20170: Drop support for GCC < 11 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20170 * Author: kddnewton (Kevin Newton) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal ---------------------------------------- Right now, CI compiles everything from GCC 7+. However, GCC 7-10 are all end-of-life and no longer supported. We should drop support for the end-of-life compilers. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

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[ruby-core:115595] [Ruby master Bug#20043] `defined?` checks for method existence but only sometimes
by tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson) 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Issue #20043 has been reported by tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson). ---------------------------------------- Bug #20043: `defined?` checks for method existence but only sometimes https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20043 * Author: tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * ruby -v: ruby 3.3.0dev (2023-12-05T21:25:34Z master 56eccb350b) [arm64-darwin23] * Backport: 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- When an expression is passed to `defined?`, it will _sometimes_ check if a method in a sub-expression is defined and sometimes it won't. For example: ``` $ ./miniruby -e'p defined?(a)' nil $ ./miniruby -e'p defined?([a])' nil ``` In the above case, Ruby will check whether or not the method `a` is defined, and it returns `nil`. However, if you use a splat, it will not check: ``` $ ./miniruby -e'p defined?([*a])' "expression" ``` The same thing seems to happen with method parameters: ``` $ ./miniruby -e'p defined?(itself)' "method" $ ./miniruby -e'p defined?(itself(a))' nil $ ./miniruby -e'p defined?(itself(*a))' "method" ``` Oddly, `defined?` will check contents of arrays, but _won't_ check contents of hashes: ``` $ ./miniruby -e'p defined?([[[[a]]]])' nil $ ./miniruby -e'p defined?({ a => a })' "expression" ``` I think all of the cases that refer to `a` should check whether or not `a` is defined regardless of splats or hashes. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

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[ruby-core:115334] [Ruby master Feature#19998] Emit deprecation warnings when the old (non-Typed) Data_XXX API is used
by byroot (Jean Boussier) 06 Jun '24

06 Jun '24

Issue #19998 has been reported by byroot (Jean Boussier). ---------------------------------------- Feature #19998: Emit deprecation warnings when the old (non-Typed) Data_XXX API is used https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19998 * Author: byroot (Jean Boussier) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal ---------------------------------------- The replacement API was introduced in Ruby 1.9.2 (2010) [Feature #3064], and the old untyped data API was marked a deprecated in the documentation as of Ruby 2.3.0 (2015): https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/98544c372d948717de22afc86d162e411f1fb5f1 However, as of today, no deprecation warning of any sort is emitted when the API is used. Ultimately removing the old untyped API would allow to easily reclaim 8B on every `T_DATA` which could be used by the newly introduced embedded TypedData objects https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/7440 Was there any discussions about removing the old API at some point? Could we emit a warning when the API is used? Either verbose or non-verbose, to at least surface the issue to gem owners? This would help drive the effort to fix outdated gems, allowing to eventually remove this old API in the future. Looking at our big applications dependencies, there seem to be a small minority of gems still using the old API: - https://rubygems.org/gems/unf_ext - https://rubygems.org/gems/rotoscope - https://rubygems.org/gems/re2 - https://rubygems.org/gems/mysql2 Migrating them over doesn't seem too hard. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

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[ruby-core:114038] [Ruby master Bug#19749] Confirm correct behaviour when attaching private method with `#define_method`
by itarato (Peter Arato) 06 Jun '24

06 Jun '24

Issue #19749 has been reported by itarato (Peter Arato). ---------------------------------------- Bug #19749: Confirm correct behaviour when attaching private method with `#define_method` https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19749 * Author: itarato (Peter Arato) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * ruby -v: 3.3.0 * Backport: 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- This issue is a special case of https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19745: Should dynamically added private methods via `.singleton_class.send(:define_method,...` be accessible publicly? See the following example? ```ruby private def bar; end foo = Object.new foo.singleton_class.send(:define_method, :bar, method(:bar)) foo.bar # No error. ``` The script above runs fine on latest Ruby 3.3. Is this correct to ignore the fact that the added method (method(:bar)) is private? This came up during a TruffleRuby investigation (https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/issues/3134) where the result for the same script is: `private method 'bar' called for #<Object:0xc8> (NoMethodError)` -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

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[ruby-core:112538] [Ruby master Feature#19458] Expose HEREDOC identifier
by joelhawksley (Joel Hawksley) 04 Jun '24

04 Jun '24

Issue #19458 has been reported by joelhawksley (Joel Hawksley). ---------------------------------------- Feature #19458: Expose HEREDOC identifier https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19458 * Author: joelhawksley (Joel Hawksley) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal ---------------------------------------- I’d like to have access to the HEREDOC identifier. In the ViewComponent framework I help maintain, we added a method to declare a template as such: ```ruby class Component erb_template <<~ERB <h1>Hello, <%= @name %>!</h1> ERB end ``` I'd prefer to be able to write: ```ruby class Component template <<~ERB <h1>Hello, <%= @name %>!</h1> ERB end ``` And be able to see that the argument passed to `.template` was from a HEREDOC with an `ERB` identifier, which would allow me to use the correct template handler to compile the template. I could see this being implemented: 1) As a new property of String, such as `identifier` or `heredoc_identifier`. 2) By having HEREDOCs return a subclass of String that includes an `identifier` property. I'd be happy to work on implementing this change. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

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[ruby-core:115923] [Ruby master Bug#20094] Inline while loop behavior changed unexpectedly in 3.3.0
by sisyphus_cg (Sisyphus CG) 30 May '24

30 May '24

Issue #20094 has been reported by sisyphus_cg (Sisyphus CG). ---------------------------------------- Bug #20094: Inline while loop behavior changed unexpectedly in 3.3.0 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20094 * Author: sisyphus_cg (Sisyphus CG) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * ruby -v: 3.3.0 * Backport: 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- The behavior of the inline while loop has changed in 3.3.0. This unexpectedly broke my code and I couldn't find anything in the changelog about it so reporting it as a bug. In ruby <= 3.2: ``` ruby (p 1) while false # nothing (p 1; p 2) while false # nothing ``` In ruby 3.3: ``` ruby (p 1) while false # 1 (p 1; p 2) while false # 1 2 ``` Essentially, if the left hand side looks like a statement, now it is treated as a do-while loop. In ruby 3.2 and less this only happened with explicit use of `begin` and `end`. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

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[ruby-core:116901] [Ruby master Bug#20289] Bug in Zlib::GzipReader#eof? breaks reading certain sizes of gzipped files.
by martinemde (Martin Emde) 29 May '24

29 May '24

Issue #20289 has been reported by martinemde (Martin Emde). ---------------------------------------- Bug #20289: Bug in Zlib::GzipReader#eof? breaks reading certain sizes of gzipped files. https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20289 * Author: martinemde (Martin Emde) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Backport: 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- Hello, A bug in the implementation of Zlib::GzipReader#eof? makes it very difficult to read certain rubygems using readpartial without receiving an EOFError. The bug is caused when the chunk size read from the gzip leaves only empty gzip "overhead" bytes at the end of the unread portion. The result is that a simple `readpartial until eof?` fails on some real world gems. ### Bug Explanation Imagine a gzip file, it has compressed data and some bytes that indicate the start and end of a chunk and then end of a file. ``` gzip file = "[... 2048 chunk of gzip data ...][ \0 bytes, chucksum info, with no new readable bytes ]" ``` When reading this file, zlib.c will pull a chunk of data according to READ_SIZE and return that data uncompressed. With exactly the right size of data (within exactly the range of READ-SIZE*n - 24 to READ_SIZE*n - 15 for any multiple of READ_SIZE) all of the file data is read and returned on the first read. The bug happens when there are bytes remaining on the gzip file that haven't been read, but contain no new data that can be returned to the buffer. Before reading the final empty chunk, #eof? returns false. After reading the final chunk, EOFError is raised because no bytes were returned into the buffer. What should happen is similar to how a Socket eof? is checked. On a socket, #eof? is not "passive" but actively reads ahead, filling the buffer. If that read-ahead fails to find new data, then the EOF is reached and eof? returns true. In zlib, #eof? does not read ahead to check if the end has been reached, causing this bug. ### Solution Samuel Giddins and I have both submitted alternate, but very similar solutions for this bug. [Samuel's PR](https://github.com/ruby/zlib/pull/73) and [My PR](https://github.com/ruby/zlib/pull/72). We'd leave it to ruby core to decide which is the best solution. Unfortunately, these bug fix PRs have been waiting for more than 2 months now with no movement on fixing this bug. The [original issue](https://github.com/ruby/zlib/issues/56) that I opened to point out this bug was submitted Aug 16, 2023. We've been working to find a solution for this bug for more than half a year. This bug was discovered because rubygems wanted to improve the efficiency of reading a gem by using readpartial to conserve memory. Sam submitted an additional PR that vastly improves the performance of the zlib gem by managing buffers better. We've already proven that this dramatically decreases memory usage when parsing gems. The [performance PR by Samuel](https://github.com/ruby/zlib/pull/61) has been open since September 13th, 2023. ### Plea We've been trying for months to get this solved. Opening a ruby-lang bug is my next attempt after communicating through our contacts at Ruby core has gone nowhere. Please merge and release these fixes, or tell us what is wrong with them so we can fix them so they can be merged. It will improve rubygems for everyone. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

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[ruby-core:116888] [Ruby master Bug#20285] Stale inline method caches when refinement modules are reloaded
by jhawthorn (John Hawthorn) 29 May '24

29 May '24

Issue #20285 has been reported by jhawthorn (John Hawthorn). ---------------------------------------- Bug #20285: Stale inline method caches when refinement modules are reloaded https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20285 * Author: jhawthorn (John Hawthorn) * Status: Assigned * Priority: Normal * Assignee: jhawthorn (John Hawthorn) * Backport: 3.0: DONTNEED, 3.1: DONTNEED, 3.2: DONTNEED, 3.3: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- This is essentially the same issue as #11672, but for inline method caches rather than class caches. In Ruby 3.3 we started using inline caches for refinements. However, we weren't clearing inline caches when defined on a reopened refinement module. ``` ruby class C end module R refine C do def m :foo end end end using R def m C.new.m end raise unless :foo == m() module R refine C do alias m m def m :bar end end end v = m() raise "expected :bar, got #{v.inspect}" unless :bar == v ``` This will raise in Ruby 3.3 as the inline cache finds a stale refinement, but passes in previous versions. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

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[ruby-core:116344] [Ruby master Bug#20195] 3.3.0 YJIT mishandles splat into methods taking a rest parameter
by alanwu (Alan Wu) 29 May '24

29 May '24

Issue #20195 has been reported by alanwu (Alan Wu). ---------------------------------------- Bug #20195: 3.3.0 YJIT mishandles splat into methods taking a rest parameter https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20195 * Author: alanwu (Alan Wu) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Backport: 3.0: DONTNEED, 3.1: DONTNEED, 3.2: DONTNEED, 3.3: REQUIRED ---------------------------------------- Check with: ```ruby ruby2_keywords def foo(*args) = args def bar(*args, **kw) = [args, kw] def pass_bar(*args) = bar(*args) def body args = foo(a: 1) pass_bar(*args) end p body ``` ```shell $ ruby ../test.rb [[{:a=>1}], {}] $ ruby --yjit-call-threshold=1 ../test.rb [[], {:a=>1}] ``` -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

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[ruby-core:116374] [Ruby master Bug#20204] 3.3.0 YJIT rises TypeError instead of ArgumentError with some incorrect calls
by alanwu (Alan Wu) 29 May '24

29 May '24

Issue #20204 has been reported by alanwu (Alan Wu). ---------------------------------------- Bug #20204: 3.3.0 YJIT rises TypeError instead of ArgumentError with some incorrect calls https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20204 * Author: alanwu (Alan Wu) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Backport: 3.0: DONTNEED, 3.1: DONTNEED, 3.2: DONTNEED, 3.3: REQUIRED ---------------------------------------- Test with: ```ruby def foo(a, *) = a def call(args, &) foo(1) foo(*args, &) end call([1, 2]) call([]) ``` ``` $ ruby ../test.rb ../test.rb:1:in `foo': wrong number of arguments (given 0, expected 1+) (ArgumentError) $ ruby --yjit-call-threshold=1 ../test.rb ../test.rb:5:in `call': wrong argument type Array (expected Proc) (TypeError) ``` -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

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