#203: Marshal.dump does not serialize an Exception's backtrace ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Reporter: vincent.isambart@… | Owner: lsansonetti@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: MacRuby | Keywords: ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Comment(by jhemmelg@…): I have been looking into this bug. I have traced the cause to not marshalling out ivars. It looks like this is at least partially due to the fact that strings are UTF-8 only (ticket #742). When I change Marshal's w_object() to output ivars it hits an infinite loop marshalling out the string. When a string is marshalled out, it's encoding is marhsalled out as well. The string encoding is a string itself. When that string is marshalled out, it's encoding is marshalled as well. It's turtles all the way down until the stack blows up. In MatzRuby there is a short circuit for US-ASCII and UTF-8 that breaks this recursion. I think we need to resolve handling string encodings (ticket #742) before this bug can be fixed. I also think this needs to be a 1.0 bug. -- Ticket URL: <http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/203#comment:1> MacRuby <http://macruby.org/>