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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jul 7, 2006, at 8:25 AM, geiger wrote:

>
> 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 ?

If it can be fixed without loss of features, even better.  A delay  
sounds plausible, tho I have no specific info.

.hc

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