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Euphoria Ticket #728: invalid parameters is caught in the backend rather than the front end.

• Reported by SDPringle Nov 26, 2011
• 3 comments

 
$ echo > t_null.e 
 
Shawn@Joy-PC /cygdrive/c/Users/Shawn/Docu 
$ eui -foo t_null.e 
 
Fatal run-time error: 
slice length is less than 0 (-2) 
 

Details

1. Comment by mattlewis Nov 27, 2011

It's a problem in the way we slice up the command line argument sequence. It is actually in the front end where the problem occurs.

$ ../4.0/eui ../source/int.ex -foo t_switch.e 
 
source/cominit.e:423 in function expand_config_options()  
slice length is less than 0 (-2)  
 
... called from source/intinit.e:41 in procedure intoptions()   
... called from source/backend.e:28 in procedure InitBackEnd()   
... called from source/mode.e:46 in procedure InitBackEnd()   
... called from source/main.e:141 in procedure main()   
... called from source/main.e:213  
--> See ex.err 

2. Comment by SDPringle Nov 27, 2011

See: hg:euphoria/rev/36122e070c41

changeset: 5279:36122e070c41 branch: 4.0 tag: tip user: Shawn Pringle <shawn.pringle@gmail.com> date: Sun Nov 27 08:10:49 2011 -0300 files: source/cominit.e description:

• fixes ticket 728

3. Comment by mattlewis Nov 27, 2011

See: hg:euphoria/rev/0b744294d825

changeset: 5280:0b744294d825 branch: 4.0 parent: 5278:36caffdac46f user: Matt Lewis date: Sun Nov 27 12:44:17 2011 -0500 files: docs/release/4.0.4.txt source/cominit.e description:

• fix handling of command line arguments when merging config files
• fixes ticket 728

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