Hi Jack,

Hope all is well. We're doing some testing to prepare for upgrading our customers to Debian 12 and it looks like I have found an issue. It appears that XCALL JSON is triggering a segfault on the Debian 12 build (EL7 is unaffected.) The A-Shell version in this case is 7.0.1765.1. I also tried upgrading to 7.0.1765.6, but I see numerous syntax errors generated by the compiler. Let me know if you need more info or an example.

Thanks,
John Andreasen
Diversified Data Software

Hi John,

The compile problem I believe is fixed in compiler 1048 (7.0.1765.9) but I need to do a little more testing before releasing it. (The problem is triggered by structure-type function parameters with default values, which was broken in 1765.6.) The JSON problem I haven't figured out yet. It seems we ran into this problem back in August, as there is actually some debug code embedded to test for the anomaly, but I can't recall now how it got resolved. It's definitely a 64 bit issue, but it acts like the standard memory allocator is returning bogus addresses. I'll work on that in the morning.

Jack

Actually, the JSON issue did come up (and was supposedly resolved), as discussed in this thread.

I'm reviewing the code changes and compilations to see if it's really a platform-specific issue, or some code patch that didn't get booked properly.

And JSON under ash-7.0.1759.2-u20-x86_64 still working strong (from that thread) not that I’ve updates since!

I've also just now confirmed that the very latest 7.0.1765.9 version (not yet released) also works on Ubuntu 20. So it is starting to look like some kind of platform-level difference. Next step: system updates and double-check that the source is identical between my u20 and d12 platforms.

Ok, updating all of the tools didn't change things. But rearranging the central JSON node structure for better 64 bit packing efficiency seems to have done the trick...

ash70notes.txt
ash-7.0.1765.9-d12-x86_64-upd.tz

I'll post updates for the other platforms separately.

Hi Jack, this seems to fix the issue. Thanks a lot!

Can we get an EL7 variant, please?

Here you go...

ash-7.0.1765.9-el7-upd.tz
ash-7.0.1765.9-el7-x86_64-upd.tz