Re: [GAP Forum] GAP crashes when reading a syntax error

2012-08-10 Thread Max Horn
Dear Nick, the issue is specific to the GAP 4.5 series, and does not affect GAP 4.4.12. Max On 07.08.2012, at 14:36, Nicholas Loughlin wrote: > Hi forum, > > I tested this on my macbook (versioning below) and couldn't replicate the bug. > GAP4, Version: 4.4.12 of 17-Dec-2008, i686-apple-darwin

Re: [GAP Forum] GAP crashes when reading a syntax error

2012-08-10 Thread Nicholas Loughlin
Hi forum, I tested this on my macbook (versioning below) and couldn't replicate the bug. GAP4, Version: 4.4.12 of 17-Dec-2008, i686-apple-darwin9.6.0-gcc Also couldn't replicate on my linux box, which runs Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS: GAP4, Version: 4.4.12 of 17-Dec-2008, i486-pc-linux-gnu-i486-linux-gnu-

Re: [GAP Forum] GAP crashes when reading a syntax error

2012-08-07 Thread Attila Egri-Nagy
Dear Max and Forum, It is probably the right place to mention this issue again, but I think there is a need for a public issue/bugtracker for GAP. An issue reported on supp...@gap-system.org remains invisible from the outside, thus the issue is reported again. This is just wasting time of the user

Re: [GAP Forum] GAP crashes when reading a syntax error

2012-08-07 Thread Max Horn
Dear Matthew, On 06.08.2012, at 11:36, Matthew Fayers wrote: > Dear GAP forum, > > I'm running GAP 4.5.5 on Ubuntu 12.04. When I read a file into GAP with the > following contents: > > f:=function() > local k; > for k in [1] do Print(k));od; > end; > > GAP unexpectedly closes. (This happens

Re: [GAP Forum] GAP crashes when reading a syntax error

2012-08-06 Thread Attila Egri-Nagy
Same on my machines (all Ubuntu). I experienced this problem many times, but never time to investigate it. I concluded that I should not make syntactic mistakes.. :) I wonder this is a special Ubuntu thing? Anyone else having this problem? attila On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Matthew Fayers w