Hello,

I have a strange error in my image that results in image start taking up system memory and crashes when it attains the max. the VM can provide on my machine (2Gb). I am working on Pharo 4.0 + Spec debugger.

After some digging in the image, I know that the error comes from an assignment operation (below in bold). And the bug only occurs when the method initialize is executed as inherited method.��

The strange part is that that it does not crash when the value assigned is slightly different e.g. "nosignature1" instead of "nosignature".

FAMIXInvocation>>initialize

super initialize.

sender := nil.

receiver := nil.

receiverSourceCode := nil.

signature := 'nosignature'.

candidates := FMMultiMultivalueLink on: self opposite: #incomingInvocations.

The crash doesn't happen when I override initialize in the subclass without sending initialize message to the superclass. So this report is about a very very specific case, but it is there. I tried to analyze further in the debugger but with announcements, etc. I wasn't able to achieve anything.��

So, if someone's interested to have a look, I can provide the image.

regards.

Usman