[DGD] Bug with function pointers

[Raymond Jennings]

I also would challenge the characterization of this as an "abort"

Runtime errors during the initial task cause DGD to shut down.

That FREE() garbage related to str.cpp though looks like a memory leak of
some sort.  Dworkin?

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:36 PM, <bart at wotf.org> wrote:

> If a function does not exist, you cannot create a pointer to it.
>
> Since this specific example happens during initialization, dgd aborts.
> This is
> desired behavior. Non essential code should not be called in this initial
> stage of booting, and errors in code which runs should indicate a failure
> to
> boot properly. Everything non essential should run later (after a
> call_out).
>
> If it happens after initialization, ie during a regular compile during
> normal
> operation, it results in a regular runtime error and not in an abort.
>
> Bart.
>
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:42:52 -0600, Blain wrote
> > If function 'foo' does not exist:
> >   &foo();
> > results in:
> >
> > /usr/System/initd.c, 120: Undefined function foo
> > Feb 23 13:41:18 ** Failed to compile "/usr/System/core.c"
> >  519 initialize        /kernel/sys/driver
> >  505 _initialize       /kernel/sys/driver
> >  337 initd             /kernel/sys/rsrcd
> >  286 compile_object    /kernel/lib/auto (/kernel/sys/rsrcd)
> >  241 _compile          /kernel/lib/auto (/kernel/sys/rsrcd)
> > Feb 23 13:41:18 ** Initialization failed.
> > FREE(200d1d7c/28), str.cpp line 49:
> >  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 'b 'u 'i 'l 't 'i 'n '/ 'f 'u 'n 'c
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