Yes. I just got back to looking at it and noticed the culprit was printString.�� Now ��#printString --> #printStringLimitedTo: --> #streamContents:limitedTo: ��which uses LimitedWriteStream that should protect against such recursion.

However ��Array>>printOn: ��is...

self shouldBePrintedAsLiteral ifTrue: [self printAsLiteralFormOn: aStream. ^ self].
self isSelfEvaluating ifTrue: [self printAsSelfEvaluatingFormOn: aStream. ^ self].
super printOn: aStream

where ��#shouldBePrintedAsLiteral ��and ��#isSelfEvaluating recursively call themselves - bypassing the protection of LimitedWriteStream. ��

As an aside, �� Array>>shouldBePrintedAsLiteral ��seems identical to ��Array>>isLiteral ��-- so is it redundant and the former be deprecated?

Now I don't quite follow the semantics of #isLiteral and #isSelfEvaluating for Arrays.

a := #( 1 2 { 3 . 4 } 5).
a isLiteral. "true"
a isSelfEvaluating. "true"

b := { 1 . 2 . #( 3 4 ) . 5 }.
b isLiteral. "true"
b isSelfEvaluating. "true"

So can someone provide an example for an Array where ��#isLiteral ��or ��#isSelfEvaluating �� are false ?�� Otherwise it seems it will always take the first condition of Array>>printOn: .

cheers -ben

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess@web.de> wrote:
Quick and Dirty,
replace Array>>#printOn:
with

printOn: aStream
������ self class = Array ifTrue: [self printAsSelfEvaluatingFormOn: aStream. ^ self].
������ super printOn: aStream

testObject := 'TEST'.
ref1 := { testObject. nil }.
ref2 := { ref1 }.
ref3 := { ref2 }.��
ref1 at: 2 put: ref3. ��"note the reference loop this creates"
testObject pointersTo asString

works


2015-01-30 14:15 GMT+01:00 Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess@web.de>:
Hi Ben,

i don't know exactly what is happening here, but (size vs. inpsect)

testObject := 'TEST'.
ref1 := { testObject. nil }.
ref2 := { ref1 }.
ref3 := { ref2 }.��
ref1 at: 2 put: ref3. ��"note the reference loop this creates"
testObject pointersTo size
-> 5



works. So, the problem is not in #pointersTo but inspecting the result array has one or more recursive self calls
to its elements.




2015-01-30 3:59 GMT+01:00 Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com>:

I am revisiting my PointerDetective tool, which relies heavily on ProtoObject>>pointersTo.

The example I recorded at the repository home page is currently locking & crashing the image due to #pointersTo being unable to handle the circular reference.�� This "must" have been working on Windows at least around August 2014, but I've been unable to reproduce a working case since my Windows laptop died and I've since moved to OSX.

On OSX, in a fresh image 40467 and latest vm 402, the following crashes the image...

testObject := 'TEST'.
ref1 := { testObject. nil }.
ref2 := { ref1 }.
ref3 := { ref2 }.��
ref1 at: 2 put: ref3. ��"note the reference loop this creates"
testObject pointersTo inspect.

OSX Memory Monitor shows memory usage shoot from 50MB to >500MB in a few seconds, then usually the image crashes, but sometimes just hangs.

I've logged...��

cheers -ben