[PD] Strange bug in my patch

Jonathan Wilkes jancsika at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 28 00:23:40 CET 2010



--- On Sat, 2/27/10, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:

> From: IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Strange bug in my patch
> To: pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 9:34 PM
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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.

On winxp it will consistently freeze the computer, forcing a reboot.  

-Jonathan


      





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