Original bug ID: 4996
Reporter: rose
Assigned to: @xavierleroy
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2011-05-29T10:19:44Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Version: 3.11.2
Fixed in version: 3.12.0+dev
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

Correct me if I am wrong, but after studying the code for substitutions in subst.ml I think, that 'Subst.compose' is wrong. It should concatenate two substitutions 'suba' and 'subb', but in fact only concatenates entries, which are already present in 'subb'. If 'subb' is the identity (empty tables), the composition should be 'suba', but is in fact also wrongly the identity substitution. The function 'Subst.compose' is only used for relocation of debugging info when packaging CMO-files. Therefore I think this makes the debugger unhappy with packed CMO-files. There is already a bug about this topic, but its closed. But the reason for that bug might not come from the debugger itself, but is possibly present because of this issue with 'compose'.