Created attachment 284222 [details] Crash report when running iPad Pro, iOS 10.0 (Beta) Summary: Reading a file (~3Mb) in a loop, can result in an EXC_BAD_ACCESS or memory full. Expected Results: The test should evaluate an arbitrary number of times without issue. Actual Results: Memory appears to be corrupted causing EXC_BAD_ACCESS or silent crash and memory full. A crash report file is attached. Steps to reproduce: Download the coco8 Xcode project (from http://u8.smalltalking.net/profile/aleReimondo/coco8/coco8.zip ) Open coco8/coco8.xcodeproj with Xcode 7.3 or 8(Beta). Run the application on an iPhone 6s, iPad Pro or iPad 4. Tap the link ("Read Sample.txt file") in the welcome page. This will cause the application to crash. Notes: The test script generate a Sample.txt file of aprox. 3mb and read the file contents 100 times. Configuration: Xcode 8.0 beta (8S128d), iPhone 6s iOS 9.3.2 (13F69) It can also be reproduced with iPhone 5s, iPad 4, iPad Pro with iOS 8.x, 9.x and 10.0 (Beta)
More details, similar crash situations, and simpler projects can be found at http://alereimondo.no-ip.org/U8/232
Thank you for the report! Crashes in speculationFromCell are unfortunately just symptoms of garbage collection bugs occurring elsewhere. There were so many changes in related code (including several to fix speculationFromCell crashes specifically) that this old report is not actionable.