[swift-dev] Foundation Data Behavior Different (read: crashes) in Swift 3.1 and Swift 3.2

[Philippe Hausler]

Is there a radar or bugs.swift.org ticket filed on this?

I presume because of the import this is a Darwin thing and not a linux thing.

> On Aug 24, 2017, at 11:05 AM, Michael Gottesman via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Aug 24, 2017, at 10:47 AM, Ryan Lovelett via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I've found what I believe is a bug. Though I'm unclear if the bug is in
>> Swift 3.1 or Swift 3.2/4.0. All I can say for sure is the behavior is
>> quite drastically different between the two.
>> 
>> For the code below (and attached):
>> 
>>   import Cocoa
>> 
>>   var data = Data(bytes: [0x50, 0x4B, 0x01, 0x02, 0x41, 0x61])
>>   data.removeFirst(4)
>>   let base64 = data.base64EncodedString()
>>   let str = String(bytes: data[0..<2], encoding: .utf8)!
>>   print("Base64: \(base64), String: \(str)")
>> 
>> If I compile and run that with the Swift included in Xcode 8.3.3 (e.g.,
>> swift ./data-bug.swift) it outputs: Base64: QWE=, String: Aa. Which is
>> what I expect.
>> 
>> With the Swift that is included with Xcode 9.0 beta 6 (9M214v) (e.g.,
>> swift -swift-version 3 ./data-bug.swift). It performs an illegal
>> hardware instruction and crashes. It also does this if I use use the
>> version 4 of the compiler.
>> 
>> Is this a bug? If so where is the bug? Was this always meant to not work
>> and Swift 3.1 just happened to work or is there now an issue in the
>> Swift 3.2 implementation?
> 
> I have not engaged my brain with the particulars of the rest of the email, but high level question: does this happen without optimization? Or does it happen only with optimization?
> 
> Michael
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