[erlang-bugs] funs and code loading don't always behave as expected

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Matthias Lang <matthias@REDACTED> writes:

> 
> A guess, based on a quick look at beam_load.c and erl_fun.c: the root
> cause is that a fun with the same hash as an existing fun will always
> overwrite the existing fun on code load. I.e. the "is the hash the
> same" test is too weak. But that is just a guess.

Yes, that is correct.

We hope to have a solution for this problem in R12B (a stronger way of
hashing funs).

/Bjorn
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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB