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Strange machine-level exception

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Jun 17, 2007
• 909 views

Hi all,

I've changed my private create_set() function a little, in order to take
advantage of find_from(). Then I encountered a strange machine-level
exception.

I've tested it on Windows XP Pro and Euphoria 3.1. The following code runs
fine when interpreted by EX.exe, EXW.exe and EXWC.exe. When I uncomment
the denoted line near the end, the program still runs fine with EX.exe but
crashes reliably with EXW.exe and EXWC.exe. Renaming "safe.e" to "machine.e"
and including it in the program didn't provide any hints.

function create_set (sequence s)
   -- create a set (= remove duplicate entries)
   integer p

   if length(s) < 2 then
      return s
   end if

   p = length(s)
   for i = length(s)-1 to 1 by -1 do
      if find_from(s[i], s, i+1) = 0 then  -- Machine-level exception here ...
         p -= 1
         s[p] = s[i]
      end if
   end for
   return s[p..$]
end function


sequence freq, result, unique
integer n, player

n = 1000

result = {}
for i = 1 to n do
   freq = repeat(0, 3)
   for card = 1 to 4 do
      player = rand(3)
--       freq[player] += 1                 -- ... after uncommenting this line!
   end for
   result = append(result, freq)
end for

unique = create_set(result)
? unique
if getc(0) then end if

Can someone please confirm the problem?

Regards,
   Juergen