Omar
Ran into an odd MSVC compiler bug today: a missing parenthesis in a specific place, in a large source file, leads compiler into allocating all my RAM, which eventually led my computer to crash. I can reproduce it reliably.
If I uncomment the extra opening brace it reports error normally.
Feb 4 at 4:10pmWeb
Show threadOmarFeb 4
I can't bother investigating because it quickly puts the computer to a crawl, but I would guess it is getting into a weird parsing/tokenizing state where the remainder of the large source file is being processed as part of that expression, or something of that sorts. Also happens after updating toolchain.
Show threadDustin L. HowettFeb 5
@ocornut I tried to get this to repro so I could file an internal bug, but wasn’t able to. Gonna try again tomorrow or so :)
Show threadOmarFeb 5
@DHowett Thanks Dustin! I reported it at https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Syntax-error-in-C-source-file-leading/11039000? it includes a video recording and logs+dumps but I believe the attachments are only available to internet devs. I have a repro branch I think I’ll minimize it and zip it.
Show threadOmarFeb 6
Update: bug was in an old version of the tool-chain (v140/2015) and fixed in more recent ones. I frequently use old tool-chains to exercise them, but it was my mistake to update VS yet forget to consider the project was using an older tool-chain.
Show threadPer VognsenFeb 4
@ocornut Infinite slopcursion.
Show threadSharlock93Feb 4
@pervognsen @ocornut always fun to crash the MSVC compiler (technically not a full crash)
Show threadTursilionFeb 5
@ocornut Weird. Template?