[reportlab-users] pyRXP - strange non-deterministic errors on python 2.7 and 64-bit Linux

[Roger Whittaker]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:28:36AM +0100, Roger Whittaker wrote:


> For what it's worth, I see the same behaviour on Ubuntu 11.04

> 64-bit, both with python 2.7 and python 2.6.


But I don't see it on Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit (python 2.6).

So... - this doesn't seem (as I first thought) to be a result of
running python 2.7.  And it doesn't seem to be a result of building
with a very new gcc, because on the offending system building with
an older gcc gives the same problem.

The problem only seems to affect the resolving of ENTITY references
into file names to be opened and read (if we get past that,
everything works).  It seems to have something to do with the
length of the file names, but I need to test more on that.

It does seem to happen only on 64-bit systems, and it does seem to
happen only with recent Linux versions.  So I'm guessing that the
most likely reason might be something in recent versions of glibc
(?).


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