On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 08:21:35AM +0100, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > Am 20.03.2012 um 06:49 schrieb Kip Warner: > > > On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 06:46 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > >> TeX has it’s problem with certain errors, accept it. > > > > It is not a problem with the program raising an error, it was how it > > went about doing it. It should not have to take down the entire > > operating system to indicate to the user that there was a non-intuitive > > syntactical error in typesetting. > > > I also agree that a segfault is not an acceptable behavior of a > program, regardless of the input (unless you are doing low level > stuff). But it is not clear if this is a problem on the ConTeXt side > or the LuaTeX side.
It did not segfault, it just consumed all available memory :) A sane operating system wouldn't allow any program to do this (mine is not sane, I know, but luatex is hardly the only program that does this to me). Regards, Khaled ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
