[opensource-dev] Does writing to llerrs make the viewer crash ?

Zabb65 zabb65 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 31 04:23:31 PST 2010


Yes, llerrs purposefully dereferences a null pointer to cause a crash,
and if that fails it infinitely loops. This is so "errors" get fixed
instead of being ignored.

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 05:42, Marine Kelley <marinekelley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have just filed a JIRA (VWR-23459) about a random crash that would
> occur in the rendering pipeline, when suddenly it struck me : I
> remember that years ago the viewer would crash when writing to llerrs,
> and that it was voluntary (don't ask me why).
>
> Is it still the case ? In this JIRA, the fix I provide merely removes
> the write to llerrs, and returns without going any further into the
> method. I did not have time to give it more attention, it was more of
> a dirty hack to be able to keep from crashing every 15 minutes while
> my friends were waiting for me.
>
> Thanks and happy new year to all of you !
> Marine
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