[PD-dev] [ pure-data-Bugs-1518030 ] GOP subpatch clearing itself crashes Pd

[geiger]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > personally, i still think that this is NOT a bug with pd but a bug
> > in the patch.
>
> Yeah, its probably not fixable without limiting flexibility.  Any
> good programming language will let you crash things in certain ways
> (fork bomb, infinite loops, rm -rf /, etc.).  Exception handling
> would be a nice solution to this, but that's not an easy one to
> implement.

Hi,

I think the case should be investigated. A segmentation fault in Pd is
a bug and should be avoided. What about delaying the clear message to
the canvas ?

Günter