[PD] Strange bug in my patch

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

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colet.patrice at free.fr wrote:
> Selon Matteo Sisti Sette <matteosistisette at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Caio Barros escribió:
> 
>>> But why again dynamic object creation is not officially supported?
>> I think it is because
> ...
> <snip>
> ...
>> B) it allows you to do things that will hang (or maybe even crash?) Pd
> 

i don't know either but i guess it's something like

C) making it "official" would effectively prohibit changes to the
internally used protocol for creating patches (not that this is likely,
giving the history of backward-compatibility in Pd).
it's similar with all those private headers, used by numerous externals...

>> Anybody please correct me where I'm wrong.
> 
> I don't think you're wrong on this but, what about [until] object that can just
> crash/hung the COMPUTER and not only pd?
> 

if this crashes your COMPUTER, than you have tweaked your OS-settings in
a way that allows an ordinary user-space application to take all the
ressources available. read: you asked for being able to fry your computer.
normally an open [until] will only hang Pd.

an ordinary [osc~ 1000]->[dac~] can fry your ears without being a "bug".

fgmasdr
IOhannes



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