[ncl-talk] Bug :: Seg Fault when accidentally trying to overwrite a list pointer

[Rick Brownrigg]

HI Alan,

That's tough justice indeed!  I'll file a bug report and we'll look into
it.  Thanks for reporting this.

Rick


On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Alan Brammer <abrammer at albany.edu> wrote:

>
>
> So this was a mistake on my part, but it resulted in a seg fault rather
> than the usual type mismatch warning.
>
>
> ;; me being an idiot, but seg faults are a tough justice
>
> my_list = NewList("lifo")
> my_list = new(10, float)
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
>
> ;;;typical and more preferable behaviour
>
> my_list = new(10, integer)
> my_list = new(10, float)
> fatal:["NclVar.c":1390]:Assignment type mismatch, right hand side can't be
> coerced to type of left hand side
> fatal:["Execute.c":8573]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 1
>
>
> my_list = new(10, float)
> my_list = NewList("lifo")
> fatal:["NclVar.c":1390]:Assignment type mismatch, right hand side can't be
> coerced to type of left hand side
> fatal:["Execute.c":8573]:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 1
>
>
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>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan.
>
>
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