Hi folks, I have a very simple logging module which has a global variable that store the IO where messages will be printed to. I’m initializing it to Base.stdout. In 0.6, this worked fine. In 0.7, when I try to access the variable, I get a segfault (platform is Ubuntu 18.06). But if I do the sa…

This is just a (hopefully educated) guess, but I suspect that the problem is due to pre-compilation being enabled by default in v0.7, which was not the case in 0.6. In Julia 0.7, your module is setting out to Base.stdout during precompilation, which likely contains a pointer which is no longer valid…

Segfault using Base.stdout on 0.7

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dhazeghi December 28, 2018, 11:30pm 7

Yes, that did it! Thanks a bunch.

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Segfault using Base.stdout on 0.7

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