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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000228 | MetaPost | bug | public | 2009-05-18 12:36 | 2010-07-14 12:31 |
| Reporter | Taco | Assigned To | Taco | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Target Version | 2.000 | ||||
| Summary | 0000228: infinite loops can cause segfaults | ||||
| Description | The code below can cause a segfault because the C stack becomes exhausted (you have to set param_size high enough, a 100.000 suffices on linux) | ||||
| Additional Information | boolean a ; vardef a = if a : fi ; enddef ; a ; end. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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rudimentary solution in #1039. |
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Here is another case, reported by Nicola 1) the following code: vardef foo@# = @ enddef; foo.a; causes a segmentation fault with mpost 1.201 and 1.202, while it correctly generates a stack capacity exceeded error in mpost 1.005. Note that |
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second case fixed by #1093 |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-05-18 12:36 | Taco | New Issue | |
| 2009-05-21 11:58 | Taco | Status | new => assigned |
| 2009-05-21 11:58 | Taco | Assigned To | => Taco |
| 2009-05-21 11:58 | Taco | Note Added: 0000203 | |
| 2009-05-21 11:59 | Taco | Target Version | => 2.000 |
| 2009-06-06 11:25 | Taco | Note Added: 0000218 | |
| 2009-06-09 14:17 | Taco | Note Added: 0000225 | |
| 2010-07-14 12:31 | Taco | Status | assigned => closed |
| 2010-07-14 12:31 | Taco | Resolution | open => fixed |
